Spatten: Efficient sparse attention architecture with cascade token and head pruning

H Wang, Z Zhang, S Han - 2021 IEEE International Symposium …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The attention mechanism is becoming increasingly popular in Natural Language Processing
(NLP) applications, showing superior performance than convolutional and recurrent …

Dsagen: Synthesizing programmable spatial accelerators

J Weng, S Liu, V Dadu, Z Wang, P Shah… - 2020 ACM/IEEE 47th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Domain-specific hardware accelerators can provide orders of magnitude speedup and
energy efficiency over general purpose processors. However, they require extensive manual …

Fifer: Practical acceleration of irregular applications on reconfigurable architectures

QM Nguyen, D Sanchez - MICRO-54: 54th Annual IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Coarse-grain reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs) can achieve much higher performance and
efficiency than general-purpose cores, approaching the performance of a specialized design …

Snafu: an ultra-low-power, energy-minimal cgra-generation framework and architecture

G Gobieski, AO Atli, K Mai, B Lucia… - 2021 ACM/IEEE 48th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultra-low-power (ULP) devices are becoming pervasive, enabling many emerging sensing
applications. Energy-efficiency is paramount in these applications, as efficiency determines …

Recent developments in low-power AI accelerators: A survey

C Åleskog, H Grahn, A Borg - Algorithms, 2022 - mdpi.com
As machine learning and AI continue to rapidly develop, and with the ever-closer end of
Moore's law, new avenues and novel ideas in architecture design are being created and …

OverGen: Improving FPGA usability through domain-specific overlay generation

S Liu, J Weng, D Kupsh… - 2022 55th IEEE/ACM …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
FPGAs have been proven to be powerful computational accelerators across many types of
workloads. The mainstream programming approach is high level synthesis (HLS), which …

Riptide: A programmable, energy-minimal dataflow compiler and architecture

G Gobieski, S Ghosh, M Heule, T Mowry… - 2022 55th IEEE/ACM …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging sensing applications create an unprecedented need for energy efficiency in
programmable processors. To achieve useful multi-year deployments on a small battery or …

OpenCGRA: An open-source unified framework for modeling, testing, and evaluating CGRAs

C Tan, C Xie, A Li, KJ Barker… - 2020 IEEE 38th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs), loosely defined as arrays of functional units
(eg, adder, subtractor, multiplier, divider, or larger multi-operation units, but smaller than a …

Lisa: Graph neural network based portable mapping on spatial accelerators

Z Li, D Wu, D Wijerathne, T Mitra - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spatial accelerators, such as Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRA), provide a
promising pathway to scale the performance and power efficiency of computing systems …

Energy efficient design of coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures: Insights, trends and challenges

E Aliagha, D Göhringer - 2022 International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures (CGRAs) are promising solutions to achieve
more performance with the end of Moore's law. Thanks to word-level programmability, they …