Toward functional safety of systolic array-based deep learning hardware accelerators

S Kundu, S Banerjee, A Raha… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High accuracy and ever-increasing computing power have made deep neural networks
(DNNs) the algorithm of choice for various machine learning, computer vision, and image …

Analyzing and mitigating the impact of permanent faults on a systolic array based neural network accelerator

JJ Zhang, T Gu, K Basu, S Garg - 2018 IEEE 36th VLSI Test …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to their growing popularity and computational cost, deep neural networks (DNNs) are
being targeted for hardware acceleration. A popular architecture for DNN acceleration …

Saca-FI: A microarchitecture-level fault injection framework for reliability analysis of systolic array based CNN accelerator

J Tan, Q Wang, K Yan, X Wei, X Fu - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
As convolutional neural network CNN accelerators are being adopted in emerging safety-
critical areas, their reliability becomes prominent. The systolic array is widely used as the …

Fault-tolerant systolic array based accelerators for deep neural network execution

JJ Zhang, K Basu, S Garg - IEEE Design & Test, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Editor's note: Systolic array is embracing its renaissance after being accepted by Google
TPU as the core computing architecture of machine learning acceleration. In this article, the …

Fsa: An efficient fault-tolerant systolic array-based dnn accelerator architecture

Y Zhao, K Wang, A Louri - 2022 IEEE 40th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the advent of Deep Neural Network (DNN) accelerators, permanent faults are
increasingly becoming a serious challenge for DNN hardware accelerator, as they can …

Exploration of activation fault reliability in quantized systolic array-based dnn accelerators

M Taheri, N Cherezova, MS Ansari… - … on Quality Electronic …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The stringent requirements for the Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) accelerator's reliability
stand along with the need for reducing the computational burden on the hardware platforms …

Test and yield loss reduction of AI and deep learning accelerators

M Sadi, U Guin - … Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With data-driven analytics becoming mainstream, the global demand for dedicated artificial
intelligence (AI) and deep learning accelerator chips is soaring. These accelerators …

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 …

Addressing the issue of processing element under-utilization in general-purpose systolic deep learning accelerators

B Liu, X Chen, Y Wang, Y Han, J Li, H Xu… - … of the 24th Asia and South …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
As an energy-efficient hardware solution for deep neural network (DNN) inference, systolic
accelerators are particularly popular in both embedded and datacenter computing …

Reliability evaluation and analysis of FPGA-based neural network acceleration system

D Xu, Z Zhu, C Liu, Y Wang, S Zhao… - … Transactions on Very …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Prior works typically conducted the fault analysis of neural network accelerator computing
arrays with simulation and focused on the prediction accuracy loss of the neural network …