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2020 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
A Software-Hardware Co-exploration Framework for Optimizing Communication in Neuromorphic Processor
verfasst von : Shiying Wang, Lei Wang, Ziyang Kang, Lianhua Qu, Shiming Li, Jinshu Su
Erschienen in: Advanced Computer Architecture
Verlag: Springer Singapore
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Abstract
Spiking neural networks (SNN) has been widely used to solve complex tasks such as pattern recognition, image classification and so on. The neuromorphic processors which use SNN to perform computation have been proved to be powerful and energy-efficient. These processors generally use Network-on-Chip (NoC) as the interconnect structure between neuromorphic cores. However, the connections between neurons in SNN are very dense. When a neuron fire, it will generate a large number of data packets. This will result in congestion and increase the packet transmission latency dramatically in NoC.
In this paper, we proposed a software-hardware co-exploration framework to alleviate this problem. This framework consists of three parts: software simulation, packet extraction&mapping, and hardware evaluation. At the software level, we can explore the impact of packet loss on the classification accuracy of different applications. At the hardware level, we can explore the impact of packet loss on transmission latency and power consumption in NoC. Experimental results show that when the neuromorphic processor runs MNIST handwritten digit recognition application, the communication delay can be reduced by 11%, the power consumption can be reduced by 5.3%, and the classification accuracy can reach 80.75% (2% higher than the original accuracy). When running FSDD speech recognition application, the communication delay can be reduced by 22%, the power consumption can be reduced by 2.2%, and the classification accuracy can reach 78.5% (1% higher than the original accuracy).