A 28nm 0.22μJ/token memory-compute-intensity-aware CNN-Transformer accelerator with hybrid-attention-based layer-fusion and cascaded pruning for semantic-segmentation

Pingcheng Dong, Yonghao Tan, Xuejiao Liu +14

This work presents a 28nm 13.93mm2 CNN-Transformer accelerator for semantic segmentation, achieving 3.86-to-10.91x energy reduction over previous designs. It features a hybrid atte…