• Journal of Semiconductors
  • Vol. 41, Issue 2, 021403 (2020)
Jin Song1、2、3, Xuemeng Wang3、4, Zhipeng Zhao3、4, Wei Li1, and Tian Zhi1
Author Affiliations
  • 1SKL of Computer Architecture, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3Cambricon Tech. Ltd, Beijing 100191, China
  • 4University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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    DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/41/2/021403 Cite this Article
    Jin Song, Xuemeng Wang, Zhipeng Zhao, Wei Li, Tian Zhi. A survey of neural network accelerator with software development environments[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2020, 41(2): 021403 Copy Citation Text show less
    (Color online) Classical CNN model architectures. There are four fixed combination of layers in the figure. Among them, (a) stands for residual net in ResNet series networks, (b) expresses Inception-ResNet combination structure, (c) represents naïve inception structure, and (d) shows an upgraded version of inception with dimension reduction feature.
    Fig. 1. (Color online) Classical CNN model architectures. There are four fixed combination of layers in the figure. Among them, (a) stands for residual net in ResNet series networks, (b) expresses Inception-ResNet combination structure, (c) represents naïve inception structure, and (d) shows an upgraded version of inception with dimension reduction feature.
    (Color online) Programming system hierarchy diagram.
    Fig. 2. (Color online) Programming system hierarchy diagram.
    (Color online) (a) TVM and (b) XLA compiling optimization stack overview diagram.
    Fig. 3. (Color online) (a) TVM and (b) XLA compiling optimization stack overview diagram.
    FeaturesGPU/CPUASICFPGA
    SpeedSlowMediumFast
    Chip areaBigSmallMedium
    ParallelismLowHighMedium
    CostLowHighMedium
    Power consumptionHighLowLow
    Development cycleShortLongShort
    FlexibilityMediumLowHigh
    Table 1. Comparison of different hardware acceleration platforms.
    Jin Song, Xuemeng Wang, Zhipeng Zhao, Wei Li, Tian Zhi. A survey of neural network accelerator with software development environments[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2020, 41(2): 021403
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