1 code implementation • 15 May 2023 • Francesco Conti, Gianna Paulin, Angelo Garofalo, Davide Rossi, Alfio Di Mauro, Georg Rutishauser, Gianmarco Ottavi, Manuel Eggimann, Hayate Okuhara, Luca Benini
We present Marsellus, an all-digital heterogeneous SoC for AI-IoT end-nodes fabricated in GlobalFoundries 22nm FDX that combines 1) a general-purpose cluster of 16 RISC-V Digital Signal Processing (DSP) cores attuned for the execution of a diverse range of workloads exploiting 4-bit and 2-bit arithmetic extensions (XpulpNN), combined with fused MAC&LOAD operations and floating-point support; 2) a 2-8bit Reconfigurable Binary Engine (RBE) to accelerate 3x3 and 1x1 (pointwise) convolutions in DNNs; 3) a set of On-Chip Monitoring (OCM) blocks connected to an Adaptive Body Biasing (ABB) generator and a hardware control loop, enabling on-the-fly adaptation of transistor threshold voltages.
no code implementations • 5 Sep 2021 • Hayate Okuhara, Ahmed Elnaqib, Martino Dazzi, Pierpaolo Palestri, Simone Benatti, Luca Benini, Davide Rossi
The increasing complexity of Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications and near-sensor processing algorithms is pushing the computational power of low-power, battery-operated end-node systems.
no code implementations • 15 Jul 2020 • Ahmed Elnaqib, Hayate Okuhara, Taekwang Jang, Davide Rossi, Luca Benini
Clock generators are an essential and critical building block of any communication link, whether it be wired or wireless, and they are increasingly critical given the push for lower I/O power and higher bandwidth in Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) for the Internet-of-Things (IoT).
