Amal Thomas K, Soumyajit Poddar, Hemanta Kumar Mondal
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Abstract
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have gained a massive impression in the fields of computer vision and especially in the embedded applications because of their high accuracy and performance. However, high computational complexity and power consumption due to convolution operations causes a high demand for low-power accelerators. A 3D geometric optimization strategy is proposed to alleviate the area and power requirements of Multiply Accumulate operations prevalent in all spatial CNNs. The proposed technique is generic and may be easily scaled for accelerators performing spatial 2D convolution.
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The Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems invites submissions of original technical papers describing research and development in emerging technologies in computing systems. Major economic and technical challenges are expected to impede the continued scaling of semiconductor devices. This has resulted in the search for alternate mechanical, biological/biochemical, nanoscale electronic, asynchronous and quantum computing and sensor technologies. As the underlying nanotechnologies continue to evolve in the labs of chemists, physicists, and biologists, it has become imperative for computer scientists and engineers to translate the potential of the basic building blocks (analogous to the transistor) emerging from these labs into information systems. Their design will face multiple challenges ranging from the inherent (un)reliability due to the self-assembly nature of the fabrication processes for nanotechnologies, from the complexity due to the sheer volume of nanodevices that will have to be integrated for complex functionality, and from the need to integrate these new nanotechnologies with silicon devices in the same system.
The journal provides comprehensive coverage of innovative work in the specification, design analysis, simulation, verification, testing, and evaluation of computing systems constructed out of emerging technologies and advanced semiconductors