• 忆阻神经网络IR-Drop分析及硬件补偿方法研究

    Analysis and hardware compensation of IR-Drop in memristor based neural network computing

    • 忆阻交叉阵列作为存内计算的天然载体,旨在打破传统冯·诺依曼结构的“存储墙”与“功耗墙”,实现高能效的神经网络计算。然而,实际忆阻交叉阵列伴随多种器件级、阵列级的非理想因素,严重影响其在完成神经网络计算时的推理精度。为此文章从硬件补偿的角度提出了“多个差分忆阻调节行”的优化方法来补偿阵列IR-Drop对神经网络推理精度的影响。将该方法用于MNIST数据集下对VGG16和LeNet-5网络的仿真实验,结果表明,所提出的硬件补偿方法可以有效降低由IR-Drop引起的精度损失。

       

      Abstract: Memristor crossbar array (MCA) is a natural medium for achieving in-memory computing which supports high energy-efficient neural computing by breaking the “memory wall” and “power wall” of the current von Neumann system. However, the manifestation of the real MCA is affected by many non-ideal factors reducing the inference accuracy of the neural network calculation. In this paper, a hard compensation method of “multiple differential memristor adjustment lines” is proposed to compensate the affections of IR-Drop to the inference precision of MAC based neural network. Through the simulation experiments of VGG16 network and LeNet-5 network under MNIST data set, the proposed hardware compensation method can effectively reduce the precision loss caused by IR-Drop.

       

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