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    Bo Wang
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    Singapore University of Technology and Design
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    Wong Ming Ming
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    Agency for Science, Technology and Research
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    Dongrui Li
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    Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore University of Technology and Design
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    Yi Sheng Chong
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    Nanyang Technological University
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    Jun Zhou
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    Agency for Science, Technology and Research
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    Weng Fai Wong
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    National University of Singapore
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    Li Shiuan Peh
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    National University of Singapore
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    Aarthy Mani
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    Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology and Research
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    Mohit Upadhyay
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    National University of Singapore
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    National University of Singapore
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    Anh Tuan Do
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    Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Abstract

    Conventional neuromorphic accelerators primarily leverage split-merge method to accommodate a neural network that is beyond a single core’s size, leading to possible accuracy loss, extra core usage and significant power and energy overhead. This work presents an energy-efficient, reconfigurable neuromorphic processor to address the problem by (i) a partial sum router circuitry that enables in-network computing to remove the need of extra merge cores; (ii) software-defined Networks- on-Chip that eliminates the power-hungry routing compute and (iii) fine-grained power gating and clock gating technique for power reduction. Our test chip achieves lossless mapping as the algorithm and an energy efficiency of 1.7pJ/SOP at 0.5V, 19% lower than state-of-the-art result.