An FPGA implemented brain emotional learning intelligent admission controller for SaaS cloud servers

Iranpour, Eiman; Sharifian, Saeed

doi:10.1177/0142331216644042

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“…Other similar practical FPGA implementations of neural networks can be found, as in MPPT controllers for solar charging applications [5], or in Software Defined Radio (SDR) modulation [6]. Alternatively, an FPGA accelerator can be connected to a PC in a Hardware In the Loop System (HILS), where input and output data are sent and received from the PC, guaranteeing a fixed processing time from the dedicated hardware [7], being independent on the load from the host PC.…”

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A Novel Systolic Parallel Hardware Architecture for the FPGA Acceleration of Feedforward Neural Networks

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New chips for machine learning applications appear, they are tuned for a specific topology, being efficient by using highly parallel designs at the cost of high power or large complex devices. However, the computational demands of deep neural networks require flexible and efficient hardware architectures able to fit different applications, neural network types, number of inputs, outputs, layers, and units in each layer, making the migration from software to hardware easy. This paper describes novel hardware implementing any feedforward neural network (FFNN): multilayer perceptron, autoencoder, and logistic regression. The architecture admits an arbitrary input and output number, units in layers, and a number of layers. The hardware combines matrix algebra concepts with serial-parallel computation. It is based on a systolic ring of neural processing elements (NPE), only requiring as many NPEs as neuron units in the largest layer, no matter the number of layers. The use of resources grows linearly with the number of NPEs. This versatile architecture serves as an accelerator in real-time applications and its size does not affect the system clock frequency. Unlike most approaches, a single activation function block (AFB) for the whole FFNN is required. Performance, resource usage, and accuracy for several network topologies and activation functions are evaluated. The architecture reaches 550 MHz clock speed in a Virtex7 FPGA. The proposed implementation uses 18-bit fixed point achieving similar classification performance to a floating point approach. A reduced weight bit size does not affect the accuracy, allowing more weights in the same memory. Different FFNN for Iris and MNIST datasets were evaluated and, for a real-time application of abnormal cardiac detection, a ×256 acceleration was achieved. The proposed architecture can perform up to 1980 Giga operations per second (GOPS), implementing the multilayer FFNN of up to 3600 neurons per layer in a single chip. The architecture can be extended to bigger capacity devices or multi-chip by the simple NPE ring extension.INDEX TERMS Feedforward neural networks -FFNN, systolic hardware architecture, FPGA implementation, neural network acceleration, deep neural networks.

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