Testability and dependability of AI hardware: Survey, trends, challenges, and perspectives

F Su, C Liu, HG Stratigopoulos - IEEE Design & Test, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hardware realization of artificial intelligence (AI) requires new design styles and even
underlying technologies than those used in traditional digital processors or logic circuits …

Exploiting errors for efficiency: A survey from circuits to applications

P Stanley-Marbell, A Alaghi, M Carbin… - ACM Computing …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
When a computational task tolerates a relaxation of its specification or when an algorithm
tolerates the effects of noise in its execution, hardware, system software, and programming …

Ft-clipact: Resilience analysis of deep neural networks and improving their fault tolerance using clipped activation

LH Hoang, MA Hanif, M Shafique - 2020 Design, Automation & …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely being adopted for safety-critical applications, eg,
healthcare and autonomous driving. Inherently, they are considered to be highly error …

Deep learning for edge computing: Current trends, cross-layer optimizations, and open research challenges

A Marchisio, MA Hanif, F Khalid… - 2019 IEEE Computer …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the Machine Learning era, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have taken the spotlight, due to
their unmatchable performance in several applications, such as image processing, computer …

On the resilience of rtl nn accelerators: Fault characterization and mitigation

B Salami, OS Unsal… - 2018 30th International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine Learning (ML) is making a strong resurgence in tune with the massive generation
of unstructured data which in turn requires massive computational resources. Due to the …

An experimental study of reduced-voltage operation in modern FPGAs for neural network acceleration

B Salami, EB Onural, IE Yuksel, F Koc… - 2020 50th Annual …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We empirically evaluate an undervolting technique, ie, underscaling the circuit supply
voltage below the nominal level, to improve the power-efficiency of Convolutional Neural …

Deepdyve: Dynamic verification for deep neural networks

Y Li, M Li, B Luo, Y Tian, Q Xu - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGSAC …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become one of the enabling technologies in many
safety-critical applications, eg, autonomous driving and medical image analysis. DNN …

An efficient bit-flip resilience optimization method for deep neural networks

C Schorn, A Guntoro, G Ascheid - 2019 Design, Automation & …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep neural networks usually possess a high overall resilience against errors in their
intermediate computations. However, it has been shown that error resilience is generally not …

[HTML][HTML] Automated design of error-resilient and hardware-efficient deep neural networks

C Schorn, T Elsken, S Vogel, A Runge… - Neural Computing and …, 2020 - Springer
Applying deep neural networks (DNNs) in mobile and safety-critical systems, such as
autonomous vehicles, demands a reliable and efficient execution on hardware. The design …

Resilient low voltage accelerators for high energy efficiency

N Chandramoorthy, K Swaminathan… - … Symposium on High …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low voltage architecture and design are key enablers of high throughput per watt in
heterogeneous, accelerator-rich many-core designs. However, such low voltage operation …