Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Neural Acceleration for General-Purpose Approximate Programs. |
| Authors: |
Esmaeilzadeh, Hadi1, Sampson, Adrian1, Ceze, Luis1, Burger, Doug2 |
| Source: |
IEEE Micro. May2013, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p16-27. 12p. |
| Subjects: |
Algorithms, Computer system equipment, Central processing units, Approximation theory, Computer architecture |
| Abstract: |
This work proposes an approximate algorithmic transformation and a new class of accelerators, called neural processing units (NPUs). NPUs leverage the approximate algorithmic transformation that converts regions of code from a Von Neumann model to a neural model. NPUs achieve an average 2.3× speedup and 3.0× energy savings for general-purpose approximate programs. This new class of accelerators shows that significant performance and efficiency gains are possible when the abstraction of full accuracy is relaxed in general-purpose computing. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
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| Database: |
Engineering Source |
