by Alexander Hankin, Lillian Pentecost, Marco Donato, Mark Hempstead, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks on Aug 3, 2022 | Tags: Memory, Modelling, non-volatile, Persistent, Tools
Non-volatile memory technologies have a rich past dating back to the 1960s. Fairchild R&D Lab member Chih-tang Sah first noted in 1961 the ability of electric charge to remain on the surface of an electrical device for up to several days. By the 1970s the first...
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by Simla Burcu Harma, Mario Drumond, Babak Falsafi on Sep 20, 2021 | Tags: Accelerators, Machine Learning, Numerical Format, Tools
DNN training is emerging as a popular compute-intensive workload. This blog post provides an overview of the recent research on numerical encoding formats for DNN training, and presents the Hybrid Block Floating-Point (HBFP) format which reduces silicon provisioning...
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