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Growing computational demands from deep neural networks (DNNs), coupled with diminishing returns from general-purpose architectures, have led to a proliferation of Neural Processing Units (NPUs). This paper describes the Project Brainwave NPU (BW-NPU), ...

Interactive AI-powered services require low-latency evaluation of deep neural network (DNN) models---aka "realtime AI". The growing demand for computationally expensive, state-of-the-art DNNs, coupled with diminishing performance gains of general-...

Hyperscale datacenter providers have struggled to balance the growing need for specialized hardware with the economic benefits of homogeneity. The Configurable Cloud datacenter architecture introduces a layer of reconfigurable logic (FPGAs) between the ...

Datacenter workloads demand high computational capabilities, flexibility, power efficiency, and low cost. It is challenging to improve all of these factors simultaneously. To advance datacenter capabilities beyond what commodity server designs can ...

Hyperscale datacenter providers have struggled to balance the growing need for specialized hardware (efficiency) with the economic benefits of homogeneity (manageability). In this paper we propose a new cloud architecture that uses reconfigurable logic ...

In 2015, a team of software and hardware developers at Microsoft shipped the world?s first commercial search engine accelerated using FPGAs in the datacenter. During the sprint to production, new algorithms in the Bing ranking service were ported into ...

To advance datacenter capabilities beyond what commodity server designs can provide, the authors designed and built a composable, reconfigurable fabric to accelerate large-scale software services. Each instantiation of the fabric consists of a 6 x 8 2D ...

Datacenter workloads demand high computational capabilities, flexibility, power efficiency, and low cost. It is challenging to improve all of these factors simultaneously. To advance datacenter capabilities beyond what commodity server designs can ...

Modern Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are capable of performing complex discrete signal processing algorithms with clock rates above 100MHz. This combined with FPGA's low expense, ease of use, and selected dedicated hardware make them an ideal ...

Modern Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are capable of performing complex discrete signal processing algorithms with clock rates of above 100MHz. This combined with FPGAs low expense, ease of use, and selected dedicated hardware make them an ideal ...

There have been many papers proposing the use of logarithmic numbers (LNS) as an alternative to floating point because of simpler multiplication, division and exponentiation computations[1,4-9,13]. However, this advantage comes at the cost of ...