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7 papers
A Variable Vector Length SIMD Architecture for HW/SW Co-designed Processors
Rakesh Kumar, Alejandro Martinez, Antonio Gonzalez
Hardware/Software (HW/SW) co-designed processors provide a promising solution to the power and complexity problems of the modern microprocessors by keeping their hardware simple. M…
Irregular Accesses Reorder Unit: Improving GPGPU Memory Coalescing for Graph-Based Workloads
Albert Segura, Jose-Maria Arnau, Antonio Gonzalez
GPGPU architectures have become established as the dominant parallelization and performance platform achieving exceptional popularization and empowering domains such as regular alg…
Boosting LSTM Performance Through Dynamic Precision Selection
Franyell Silfa, Jose-Maria Arnau, Antonio Gonzàlez
The use of low numerical precision is a fundamental optimization included in modern accelerators for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). The number of bits of the numerical representation…
(Pen-) Ultimate DNN Pruning
Marc Riera, Jose-Maria Arnau, Antonio Gonzalez
DNN pruning reduces memory footprint and computational work of DNN-based solutions to improve performance and energy-efficiency. An effective pruning scheme should be able to syste…
Rendering Elimination: Early Discard of Redundant Tiles in the Graphics Pipeline
Martí Anglada, Enrique de Lucas, Joan-Manuel Parcerisa +3
GPUs are one of the most energy-consuming components for real-time rendering applications, since a large number of fragment shading computations and memory accesses are involved. M…
Trends in Processor Architecture
Antonio Gonzalez
This paper presents an overview of the main trends in processor architecture. It starts with an analysis of the past evolution of processors and the main driving forces behind it,…
E-PUR: An Energy-Efficient Processing Unit for Recurrent Neural Networks
Franyell Silfa, Gem Dot, Jose-Maria Arnau +1
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are a key technology for emerging applications such as automatic speech recognition, machine translation or image description. Long Short Term Memo…