Continuous mobile vision is limited by the inability to efficiently capture image frames and
process vision features. This is largely due to the energy burden of analog readout circuitry …

As improvements in per-transistor speed and energy efficiency diminish, radical departures
from conventional approaches are becoming critical to improving the performance and …

Conditional branch prediction remains one of the most important enabling technologies for
high-performance microprocessors. A small improvement in accuracy can result in a large …

The HPC Challenge (HPCC) Benchmark suite and the Intel MPI Benchmark (IMB) are used
to compare and evaluate the combined performance of processor, memory subsystem and …

Neural-based branch predictors have been among the most accurate in the literature. The
recently proposed scaled neural analog predictor, or SNAP, builds on piecewise-linear …

Machine learning techniques have influenced the field of computer architecture like many
other fields. This paper studies how the fundamental machine learning techniques can be …

Branch prediction accuracy becomes more crucial in high-performance embedded
processors. The importance of branch prediction in embedded processors continues to grow …

For decades, the semiconductor industry enjoyed exponential improvements in
microprocessor power and performance with the device scaling of successive technology …

A mixed mode Neural Perception Engine (NPE) is proposed as the pre-processing
accelerator of multi-object recognition processor to reduce the computational complexity and …