Mixed-Signal Dot-Product Processor with Switched-Capacitors for Machine Learning

A mixed-signal dot-product computation has growing use cases in embedded sensory systems and emerging computing platforms (such as in-memory or neuromorphic computings) for the ultra low-power implementation of machine learning (ML) algorithms. This paper proposes a compact and energy-efficient mixe...

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Main Authors: Kim, Kyu-hyoun, Kang, Mingu
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
analog processing
Capacitors
dot product
Energy resolution
Hardware
Machine learning
Machine learning algorithms
mixed-signal processing
Neuromorphic engineering
switched-capacitor
Switches
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Summary:A mixed-signal dot-product computation has growing use cases in embedded sensory systems and emerging computing platforms (such as in-memory or neuromorphic computings) for the ultra low-power implementation of machine learning (ML) algorithms. This paper proposes a compact and energy-efficient mixed-signal dot-product circuit with switched-capacitors which has an analog input as one operand and a digital input as the other operand. The proposed dot-product processor requires only two unit-sized capacitors per multiplication, thereby highly energy- and area-efficient. The proposed processor also supports flexible input bit-precision without any hardware overhead by simply iterating more cycles to provide higher bit precision. The simulated results for the proposed circuit designed in a 14nm CMOS show 10.5× and 7.9× improvements in energy efficiency and computation delay, respectively, compared to a conventional switched-capacitor based implementation while maintaining 9 bit output resolution.
ISSN:2767-7699
DOI:10.1109/ICEIC61013.2024.10457241