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A microcode-based control unit for deep learning processors

Zhao et al., 2020

Document ID
4134832948921455301
Author
Zhao Q
Nakahara Y
Amagasaki M
Iida M
Yoshida T
Publication year
Publication venue
2020 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW)

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Heterogeneous computing systems that integrate general-purpose processors with various types of application-specific accelerators are becoming mainstream. However, designing an efficient and flexible instruction set architecture (ISA) for a new accelerator is challenging. In …
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