Neural acceleration for general-purpose approximate programs

IEEE Micro

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 16-27

  Esmaeilzadeh, Hadi ^a   Sampson, Adrian ^a   Ceze, Luis ^a   Burger, Doug ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

accelerators; approximate computing; neural networks; neural processing units; NPUs; Parrot algorithmic transformation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC TRANSFORMATION; APPROXIMATE COMPUTING; EFFICIENCY GAIN; GENERAL-PURPOSE COMPUTING; NEURAL MODELS; NEURAL-PROCESSING; NPUS; VON NEUMANN MODEL;

HARDWARE; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84879037510     PISSN: 02721732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MM.2013.28     Document Type: Article

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