Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium

4:30 PM, Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Shriram Center for Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Room 104
http://ee380.stanford.edu

Neural Networks on Chip Design from the User Perspective

Yu Wang
Electronic Engineering Department
Tsinghua University

About the talk:

To apply neural networks to different applications, various customized hardware architectures are proposed in the past a few years to boost the energy efficiency of deep learning inference processing. Meanwhile, the possibilities of adopting emerging NVM (Non-Volatile Memory) technology for efficient learning systems, i.e., in-memory-computing, are also attractive for both academia and industry. We will briefly review our past effort on Deep learning Processing Unit (DPU) design on FPGA in Tsinghua and Deephi, and then talk about some features, i.e. interrupt and virtualization, we are trying to introduce into the accelerators from the user’s perspective. Furthermore, we will also talk about the challenges for reliability and security issues in NN accelerators on both FPGA and NVM, and some preliminary solutions for now.

Video:

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About the Speaker:

[speaker photo] Yu Wang received his B.S. degree in 2002 and Ph.D. degree (with honor) in 2007 from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is currently a Tenured Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University. His research interests include application specific hardware computing, parallel circuit analysis, and power/reliability aware system design methodology. Dr. Wang has authored and coauthored over 200 papers in refereed journals and conferences. He has received Best Paper Award in ASPDAC 2019, FPGA 2017, NVMSA17, ISVLSI 2012, and Best Poster Award in HEART 2012 with 10 Best Paper Nominations. He is a recipient of DAC Under-40 Innovator Award in 2018 and IBM X10 Faculty Award in 2010. He is the co-founder of Deephi Tech (acquired by Xilinx), which is a leading deep learning computing platform provider.

Contact information:

Permanent Address:
Room 4-303
Rohm Building
EE Dept.
Tsinghua Universityi
Beijing, China
Email Contact:
yu-wang@tsinghua.edu.cn