期刊
JOURNAL OF LOW POWER ELECTRONICS AND APPLICATIONS
卷 12, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jlpea12040057
关键词
processing-in-pixel; intelligent sensing; magnetic RAM; low-power image sensor
资金
- National Science Foundation
- [2216772]
- [2216773]
- [2228028]
This paper proposes an efficient new architecture called Ocelli, which introduces technologies such as compute add-ons and non-volatile magnetic RAM to enable efficient computation of convolutional neural networks on embedded edge devices with limited energy budgets and hardware. The proposed architecture achieves improved power efficiency and accuracy.
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), due to their recent successes, have gained lots of attention in various vision-based applications. They have proven to produce incredible results, especially on big data, that require high processing demands. However, CNN processing demands have limited their usage in embedded edge devices with constrained energy budgets and hardware. This paper proposes an efficient new architecture, namely Ocelli includes a ternary compute pixel (TCP) consisting of a CMOS-based pixel and a compute add-on. The proposed Ocelli architecture offers several features; (I) Because of the compute add-on, TCPs can produce ternary values (i.e., -1, 0, +1) regarding the light intensity as pixels' inputs; (II) Ocelli realizes analog convolutions enabling low-precision ternary weight neural networks. Since the first layer's convolution operations are the performance bottleneck of accelerators, Ocelli mitigates the overhead of analog buffers and analog-to-digital converters. Moreover, our design supports a zero-skipping scheme to further power reduction; (III) Ocelli exploits non-volatile magnetic RAMs to store CNN's weights, which remarkably reduces the static power consumption; and finally, (IV) Ocelli has two modes, including sensing and processing. Once the object is detected, the architecture switches to the typical sensing mode to capture the image. Compared to the conventional pixels, it achieves an average 10% efficiency on its lane detection power consumption compared with existing edge detection algorithms. Moreover, considering different CNN workloads, our design shows more than 23% power efficiency over conventional designs, while it can achieve better accuracy.
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