Deep Learning Accelerators’ Configuration Space Exploration Effect on Performance and Resource Utilization: A Gemmini Case Study
Italian National Conference on Sensors(2023)
摘要
Though custom deep learning (DL) hardware accelerators are attractive for making inferences in edge computing devices, their design and implementation remain a challenge. Open-source frameworks exist for exploring DL hardware accelerators. Gemmini is an open-source systolic array generator for agile DL accelerator exploration. This paper details the hardware/software components generated using Gemmini. The general matrix-to-matrix multiplication (GEMM) of different dataflow options, including output/weight stationary (OS/WS), was explored in Gemmini to estimate the performance relative to a CPU implementation. The Gemmini hardware was implemented on an FPGA device to explore the effect of several accelerator parameters, including array size, memory capacity, and the CPU/hardware image-to-column (im2col) module, on metrics such as the area, frequency, and power. This work revealed that regarding the performance, the WS dataflow offered a speedup of 3× relative to the OS dataflow, and the hardware im2col operation offered a speedup of 1.1× relative to the operation on the CPU. For hardware resources, an increase in the array size by a factor of 2 led to an increase in both the area and power by a factor of 3.3, and the im2col module led to an increase in area and power by factors of 1.01 and 1.06, respectively.
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deep learning,hardware accelerators,open-source,Gemmini,systolic array,GEMM,output,weight stationary dataflow,FPGA,image-to-column
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