Institute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems

A Parallel SystemC Virtual Platform for Neuromorphic Architectures

Authors:
Galicia, M.Merchant, F.Leupers, R.
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Book Title:
International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) 2022
Date:
Apr. 2022
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Best paper award

DOI:
10.1109/ISQED54688.2022.9806235
hsb:
RWTH-2023-00050
Language:
English
Abstract:
With the increasing interest in neuromorphic computing, designers of embedded systems face the challenge of efficiently simulating such platforms to enable architecture design exploration early in the development cycle. Executing artificial neural network applications on neuromorphic systems which are being simulated on virtual platforms (VPs) is an extremely demanding computational task. Nevertheless, it is a vital benchmarking task for comparing different possible architectures. Therefore, exploiting the multicore capabilities of the VP's host system is essential to achieve faster simulations. Hence, this paper presents a parallel SystemC based VP for RISC-V multicore platforms integrating multiple computing-in-memory neuromorphic accelerators.
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