In:
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Vol. 21, No. 3 ( 2022-05-31), p. 1-29
Abstract:
Memristor-based deep learning accelerators provide a promising solution to improve the energy efficiency of neuromorphic computing systems. However, the electrical properties and crossbar structure of memristors make these accelerators error-prone. In addition, due to the hardware constraints, the way to deploy neural network models on memristor crossbar arrays affects the computation parallelism and communication overheads. To enable reliable and energy-efficient memristor-based accelerators, a simulation platform is needed to precisely analyze the impact of non-ideal circuit/device properties on the inference accuracy and the influence of different deployment strategies on performance and energy consumption. In this paper, we propose a flexible simulation framework, DL-RSIM, to tackle this challenge. A rich set of reliability impact factors and deployment strategies are explored by DL-RSIM, and it can be incorporated with any deep learning neural networks implemented by TensorFlow. Using several representative convolutional neural networks as case studies, we show that DL-RSIM can guide chip designers to choose a reliability-friendly design option and energy-efficient deployment strategies and develop optimization techniques accordingly.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1539-9087
,
1558-3465
Language:
English
Publisher:
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publication Date:
2022
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2096332-4
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