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Video s3
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    Presenter(s)
    Md Shazzad Hossain Headshot
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Drexel University
    Country
    Country
    United States
    Abstract

    A multi-voltage domain heterogeneous DNN accelerator architecture is proposed that executes multiple models simultaneously with different power-performance operating points. The proposed architecture and circuits are evaluated with SPICE simulation in a 65 nm CMOS technology. The proposed heterogeneous architecture improves the energy efficiency to 2.04 TOPS/W, while the conventional monolithic and single voltage domain architecture exhibits an energy efficiency of 0.0458 TOPS/W. In addition, the total power consumption of the accelerator SoC is reduced to 1.34 W as compared to the 3.72 W consumed by the baseline architecture when all MAC units are operated at a voltage of 0.45 V.