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An in-dram neural network processing engine

Sudarshan et al., 2019

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8731446515301928121
Author
Sudarshan C
Lappas J
Ghaffar M
Rybalkin V
Weis C
Jung M
Wehn N
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Publication venue
2019 IEEE international symposium on circuits and systems (ISCAS)

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Many advanced neural network inference engines are bounded by the available memory bandwidth. The conventional approach to address this issue is to employ high bandwidth memory devices or to adapt data compression techniques (reduced precision, sparse weight …
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