Late Breaking Results: Automated Hardware Generation of CNN Models on FPGAs
Danielle Tchuinkou Kwadjo, Christophe Bobda · 2020
In this paper, we propose an automated framework that takes as input a TensorFlow inference graph and generates high-performance accelerators on FPGA by assembling CNN pre-implemented components as a puzzle, based on the graph topology. Using pre-implemented components allows us the only use the minimum of resources necessary, predict the performance and a gain in productivity We adopt a unified representation based on systolic array to perform the computational-hungry operations of the model and provide novel analysis of design trade-offs for FPGA CNN accelerators. Experimental results show the great performance, low latency and flexibility provided by the proposed framework.