Boris Assenov Alexiev
Integration of a Precision Scalable Multiplier in the AHA CGRA Framework.
Rel. Mario Roberto Casu, Edward Manca. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Electronic Engineering, 2025
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Abstract
Modern neural networks continue to expand in parameter count and number of layers, pushing the limits of training and inference hardware. Since convolutional, fully connected, and attention layers are dominated by multiply–accumulate (MAC) operations, the throughput and energy cost of multiplication largely determine overall system efficiency. Two techniques are especially effective: reducing numeric precision via quantization of weights and activations, and exploiting parallelism in HW architectures to perform many multiplications concurrently with reduced precision of operands. This thesis explores the latter technique, with the integration of a reconfigurable multiplier into the Agile Hardware Approach (AHA) design flow, targeting coarse‑grained reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs).
The integrated unit allows for precision-scalability, allowing a more efficient hardware utilization, as the bit‑width required by the workload varies
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