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Spiking neural network (SNN) as the third-generation artificial neural network, has higher computational efficiency, lower resource overhead and higher biological rationality. It shows greater potential applications in audio and image processing. With the traditional method, the adder is used to add the membrane potential, which has low efficiency, high resource overhead and low level of integration. In this work, we propose a spiking neural network inference accelerator with higher integration and computational efficiency. Resistive random access memory (RRAM or memristor) is an emerging storage technology, in which resistance varies with voltage. It can be used to build a crossbar architecture to simulate matrix computing, and it has been widely used in processing in memory (PIM), neural network computing, and other fields. In this work, we design a weight storage matrix and peripheral circuit to simulate the leaky integrate and fire (LIF) neuron based on the memristor array. And we propose an SNN hardware inference accelerator, which integrates 24k neurons and 192M synapses with 0.75k memristor. We deploy a three-layer fully connected network on the accelerator and use it to execute the inference task of the MNIST dataset. The result shows that the accelerator can achieve 148.2 frames/s and 96.4% accuracy at a frequency of 50 MHz.
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Keywords:
- spiking neural networks /
- resistive random access memory /
- processing in memory /
- leaky integrate and fire model /
- hardware inference accelerator
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图 1 基于LIF模型的全连接脉冲神经网络结构图
Figure 1. Structure diagram of fully connected spiking neural network based on LIF model.
图 2 (a)神经元原理图; (b)神经元计算原理图
Figure 2. (a) Neuron schematic diagram; (b) schematic diagram of neuron computation.
图 3 基于突触复用技术及权值共享技术的LIF神经元模型架构
Figure 3. The LIF neuron model architecture based on synapse multiplexing technology and weight sharing technology.
图 4 (a) 忆阻器的建立/擦除示意图; (b) 基于忆阻器的crossbar阵列
Figure 4. (a) The set/reset operation of the memristor; (b) the crossbar structure based on the memristor.
图 5 权值共享技术对精度的影响
Figure 5. The influence of weight sharing technology on accuracy.
图 6 基于忆阻器阵列的计算核架构
Figure 6. Computing core architecture based on resistive random access memory matrix.
图 7 基于硬件加速器的应用架构图
Figure 7. Application architecture diagram based on hardware accelerator.
图 8 推理网络模型到硬件加速的映射示意图
Figure 8. Mapping diagram of network to hardware accelerator.
图 9 硬件加速器对不同规模神经网络计算的加速效率
Figure 9. Acceleration efficiency of hardware accelerator for different scale neuron networks.
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[1] Redmon J, Farhadi A 2017 30th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition Honolulu, HI, July 21–26, 2017 pp6517–6525
[2] Silver D, Schrittwieser J, Simonyan K, Antonoglou I, Huang A, Guez A, Hubert T, Baker L, Lai M, Bolton A, Chen Y, Lillicrap T, Hui F, Sifre L, Van Den Driessche G, Graepel T, Hassabis D 2017 Nature 550 354
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[5] Gerstner W 1995 Phys. Rev. E:Stat. Phys. Plasmas Fluids Relat. Interdisciplin. Top. 51 738
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Google Scholar
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Chen Y R, Li H, Chen Y Z, Chen F, Li S C, Liu C C, Wen W J, Wu C P, Yan B N 2018 Artif. Intell. View 13 46
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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