AI Hardware

An Energy-efficient Multi-core Restricted Boltzmann Machine Processor with On-chip Bio-plausible Learning and Reconfigurable Sparsity

In this paper, a multi-core RBM processor design with on-chip learning and reconfigurable sparsity is proposed to reduce energy consumption and improve processing throughput. The FPGA implementation results show that the proposed RBM design achieves 44.0% energy saving and 24.3% speed improvement in RBM training operation against the baseline CD-based RBM design. In the future, we will focus on ASIC implementation of our proposed RBM processor to further improve the energy efficiency and minimize the hardware cost.

Energy-efficient AI Hardware

Develop domain-specific AI hardware systems for power-limited and real-time applications.