DSLR-CNN: Efficient CNN Acceleration using Digit-Serial Left-to-Right Arithmetic
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| author | Nisar, Malik Zohaib Ibrahim, Muhammad Sohail Gorgin, Saeid Usman, Muhammad Lee, Jeong-A |
| author_facet | Nisar, Malik Zohaib Ibrahim, Muhammad Sohail Gorgin, Saeid Usman, Muhammad Lee, Jeong-A |
| contents | Digit-serial arithmetic has emerged as a viable approach for designing hardware accelerators, reducing interconnections, area utilization, and power consumption. However, conventional methods suffer from performance and latency issues. To address these challenges, we propose an accelerator design using left-to-right (LR) arithmetic, which performs computations in a most-significant digit first (MSDF) manner, enabling digit-level pipelining. This leads to substantial performance improvements and reduced latency. The processing engine is designed for convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which includes low-latency LR multipliers and adders for digit-level parallelism. The proposed DSLR-CNN is implemented in Verilog and synthesized with Synopsys design compiler using GSCL 45nm technology, the DSLR-CNN accelerator was evaluated on AlexNet, VGG-16, and ResNet-18 networks. Results show significant improvements across key performance evaluation metrics, including response time, peak performance, power consumption, operational intensity, area efficiency, and energy efficiency. The peak performance measured in GOPS of the proposed design is 4.37x to 569.11x higher than contemporary designs, and it achieved 3.58x to 44.75x higher peak energy efficiency (TOPS/W), outperforming conventional bit-serial designs. |
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| spellingShingle | DSLR-CNN: Efficient CNN Acceleration using Digit-Serial Left-to-Right Arithmetic Nisar, Malik Zohaib Ibrahim, Muhammad Sohail Gorgin, Saeid Usman, Muhammad Lee, Jeong-A Hardware Architecture Digit-serial arithmetic has emerged as a viable approach for designing hardware accelerators, reducing interconnections, area utilization, and power consumption. However, conventional methods suffer from performance and latency issues. To address these challenges, we propose an accelerator design using left-to-right (LR) arithmetic, which performs computations in a most-significant digit first (MSDF) manner, enabling digit-level pipelining. This leads to substantial performance improvements and reduced latency. The processing engine is designed for convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which includes low-latency LR multipliers and adders for digit-level parallelism. The proposed DSLR-CNN is implemented in Verilog and synthesized with Synopsys design compiler using GSCL 45nm technology, the DSLR-CNN accelerator was evaluated on AlexNet, VGG-16, and ResNet-18 networks. Results show significant improvements across key performance evaluation metrics, including response time, peak performance, power consumption, operational intensity, area efficiency, and energy efficiency. The peak performance measured in GOPS of the proposed design is 4.37x to 569.11x higher than contemporary designs, and it achieved 3.58x to 44.75x higher peak energy efficiency (TOPS/W), outperforming conventional bit-serial designs. |
| title | DSLR-CNN: Efficient CNN Acceleration using Digit-Serial Left-to-Right Arithmetic |
| topic | Hardware Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01737 |