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Jun-Hui Fu
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AffiliationNational Cheng Kung University
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CountryTaiwan
Abstract
This paper presents a switched-capacitor charge redistribution based CIM accelerator for CNNs. The weighted capacitor switching method is proposed to reduce the number of ADCs by half, and hence diminish power consumption and area overhead of the accelerator. Another technique, called low MAC value skipping, is also implemented to skip the analog-to-digital conversion for the first few bits that further reducing the power consumption of the ADC. According to the measurement results, the energy efficiency can reach 12.02 TOPS/W with the proposed design techniques.