Paul Detterer
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This paper introduces SENMap, a mapping and synthesis tool for a scalable energy efficient neuromorphic computing architecture frameworks. SENECA a flexible architectural design optimized for executing edge AI SNN/ANN inference applications efficiently. To speed up the silicon tapeout and chip design for SENECA, an accurate emulator SENSIM was designed. While SENSIM supports direct mapping of SNNs on neuromorphic architectures, as the SNN/ANN grow in size, achieving optimal mapping for objectives like energy, throughput, area, and accuracy becomes challenging. This paper introduces SENMap, flexible mapping software for efficiently mapping large SNN/ANN applications onto adaptable architectures. SENMap considers architectural, pretrained SNN/ANN realistic examples, and event rate-based parameters and is open-sourced along with SENSIM to aid flexible neuromorphic chip design before fabrication. Experimental results show SENMap enables 40 percent energy improvements for a baseline SENSIM operating on timestep asynchronous mode of operation. SENMap is designed in such a way that it facilitates mapping large spiking neural networks for future modifications as well.
Current Artificial Intelligence (AI) computation systems face challenges, primarily from the memory-wall issue, limiting overall system-level performance, especially for Edge devices with constrained battery budgets, such as smartphones, wearables, and Internet-of-Things sensor systems. In this paper, we propose a new SRAM-based Compute-In-Memory (CIM) accelerator optimized for Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) Inference. Our proposed architecture employs a multiport SRAM design with multiple decoupled Read ports to enhance the throughput and Transposable Read-Write ports to facilitate online learning. Furthermore, we develop an Arbiter circuit for efficient data-processing and port allocations during the computation. Results for a 128×128 array in 3nm FinFET technology demonstrate a 3.1× improvement in speed and a 2.2× enhancement in energy efficiency with our proposed multiport SRAM design compared to the traditional single-port design. At system-level, a throughput of 44 MInf/s at 607 pJ/Inf and 29mW is achieved.