CARMEN: CORDIC-Accelerated Resource-Efficient Multi-Precision Inference Engine for Deep Learning
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| author | Kumar, Sonu Lokhande, Mukul Vishvakarma, Santosh Kumar Teman, Adam |
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| contents | This paper presents CARMEN, a runtime-adaptive, CORDIC-accelerated multi-precision vector engine for resource-efficient deep learning inference. The key insight is that CORDIC iteration depth directly governs computational accuracy, enabling dynamic switching between approximate and accurate execution modes without hardware modification. The architecture integrates a low-resource iterative CORDIC-based MAC unit with a time-multiplexed multi-activation function block, supporting flexible 8/16-bit precision and high hardware utilization. ASIC implementation in 28 nm CMOS achieves up to 33% reduction in computation cycles and 21% power savings per MAC stage; a 256-PE configuration delivers 4.83 TOPS/mm2 compute density and 11.67 TOPS/W energy efficiency. FPGA deployment on PynqZ2 validates 154.6 ms latency at 0.43 W for real-time object detection. |
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| spellingShingle | CARMEN: CORDIC-Accelerated Resource-Efficient Multi-Precision Inference Engine for Deep Learning Kumar, Sonu Lokhande, Mukul Vishvakarma, Santosh Kumar Teman, Adam Hardware Architecture Computational Complexity Robotics Image and Video Processing This paper presents CARMEN, a runtime-adaptive, CORDIC-accelerated multi-precision vector engine for resource-efficient deep learning inference. The key insight is that CORDIC iteration depth directly governs computational accuracy, enabling dynamic switching between approximate and accurate execution modes without hardware modification. The architecture integrates a low-resource iterative CORDIC-based MAC unit with a time-multiplexed multi-activation function block, supporting flexible 8/16-bit precision and high hardware utilization. ASIC implementation in 28 nm CMOS achieves up to 33% reduction in computation cycles and 21% power savings per MAC stage; a 256-PE configuration delivers 4.83 TOPS/mm2 compute density and 11.67 TOPS/W energy efficiency. FPGA deployment on PynqZ2 validates 154.6 ms latency at 0.43 W for real-time object detection. |
| title | CARMEN: CORDIC-Accelerated Resource-Efficient Multi-Precision Inference Engine for Deep Learning |
| topic | Hardware Architecture Computational Complexity Robotics Image and Video Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06878 |