3 papers
cs.AR2025
Multimodal Chip Physical Design Engineer Assistant
Yun-Da Tsai, Chang-Yu Chao, Liang-Yeh Shen +7
Modern chip physical design relies heavily on Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, which often struggle to provide interpretable feedback or actionable guidance for improving…
cs.AR2025
Commercial Evaluation of Zero-Skipping MAC Design for Bit Sparsity Exploitation in DL Inference
Harideep Nair, Prabhu Vellaisamy, Tsung-Han Lin +3
General Matrix Multiply (GEMM) units, consisting of multiply-accumulate (MAC) arrays, perform bulk of the computation in deep learning (DL). Recent work has proposed a novel MAC de…
cs.AR2024
tubGEMM: Energy-Efficient and Sparsity-Effective Temporal-Unary-Binary Based Matrix Multiply Unit
Prabhu Vellaisamy, Harideep Nair, Joseph Finn +7
General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) is a ubiquitous compute kernel in deep learning (DL). To support energy-efficient edge-native processing, new GEMM hardware units have been pro…