Diana: An end-to-end hybrid digital and analog neural network soc for the edge

P Houshmand, GM Sarda, V Jain… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
DIgital-ANAlog (DIANA), a heterogeneous multi-core accelerator, combines a reduced
instruction set computer-five (RISC-V) host processor with an analog in-memory computing …

Tinyvers: A tiny versatile system-on-chip with state-retentive eMRAM for ML inference at the extreme edge

V Jain, S Giraldo, J De Roose, L Mei… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extreme edge devices or Internet-of-Things (IoT) nodes require both ultra-low power (ULP)
always-on (AON) processing as well as the ability to do on-demand sampling and …

AAD-KWS: A Sub-μ W Keyword Spotting Chip With an Acoustic Activity Detector Embedded in MFCC and a Tunable Detection Window in 28-nm CMOS

W Shan, J Qian, L Zhu, J Yang… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a widely used speech-triggered interface, deep-learning-based keyword spotting (KWS)
chips require both ultra-low power and high detection accuracy. We propose a sub …

Sub-mW keyword spotting on an MCU: Analog binary feature extraction and binary neural networks

G Cerutti, L Cavigelli, R Andri, M Magno… - … on Circuits and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Keyword spotting (KWS) is a crucial function enabling the interaction with the many
ubiquitous smart devices in our surroundings, either activating them through wake-word or …

A 0.61-W Fully Integrated Keyword-Spotting ASIC With Real-Point Serial FFT-Based MFCC and Temporal Depthwise Separable CNN

C Li, H Zhi, K Yang, J Qian, Z Yan, L Zhu… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fully integrated near-microphone keyword spotting (KWS) chip is proposed to directly
interact with a passive microphone and achieve submicrowatt power for the Internet of …

FPGA implementation of keyword spotting system using depthwise separable binarized and ternarized neural networks

S Bae, H Kim, S Lee, Y Jung - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Keyword spotting (KWS) systems are used for human–machine communications in various
applications. In many cases, KWS involves a combination of wake-up-word (WUW) …

TCN-CUTIE: A 1,036-TOp/s/W, 2.72-µJ/Inference, 12.2-mW All-Digital Ternary Accelerator in 22-nm FDX Technology

M Scherer, A Di Mauro, T Fischer, G Rutishauser… - IEEE Micro, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tiny machine learning (TinyML) applications impose µJ/inference constraints, with a
maximum power consumption of tens of megawatt. It is extremely challenging to meet these …

Exploiting symmetric temporally sparse BPTT for efficient RNN training

X Chen, C Gao, Z Wang, L Cheng, S Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are useful in temporal sequence tasks. However,
training RNNs involves dense matrix multiplications which require hardware that can …

Improving Audio Classification Method by Combining Self-Supervision with Knowledge Distillation

X Gong, H Duan, Y Yang, L Tan, J Wang, AV Vasilakos - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The current audio single-mode self-supervised classification mainly adopts a strategy based
on audio spectrum reconstruction. Overall, its self-supervised approach is relatively single …

TinyVers: A Tiny Versatile All-Digital Heterogeneous Multi-core System-on-Chip

V Jain, M Verhelst - Towards Heterogeneous Multi-core Systems-on-Chip …, 2023 - Springer
Extreme edge devices or Internet of Thing nodes require energy-efficient, ultra-low power,
always-on processing, and the ability to do on-demand sampling and processing. Though …