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    Vivek Parmar Headshot
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    Vivek Parmar
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    Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
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    We investigate Edge-AI Inference (EAI) architectures based on 22nm FD-SOI embedded-MRAM (eMRAM) using quantized neural networks (QNN) for inference applications in harsh industrial conditions having strong magnetic field and wide operating temperature (-40∼125 ◦ C). We achieved best case test accuracy of 98.99% with Quantized-Convolutional Neural Network (QCNN) and 89.94% with Quantized-Multi-layer Perceptron (QMLP) surpassing prior reported results in literature on MNIST dataset. By exploiting BER resilience of QNN, we show that eMRAM based EAI offers a superior magnetic immunity of ≈ 700 Oe at 125 ◦ C (≈ 98% accuracy) without the use of ECC and significant energy saving of ≈ 14% for QCNN and ≈ 11% for QMLP. A detailed analysis on the tradeoff between retention time, write energy and inference accuracy is presented.

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    • MRAM-Based BER Resilient Quantized Edge-AI Networks for Harsh Industrial Conditions (application/pdf)