An Energy-Quality Scalable STDP Based Sparse Coding Processor With On-Chip Learning Capability
- Authors
- Kim, Heetak; Tang, Hoyoung; Choi, Woong; Park, Jongsun
- Issue Date
- 2월-2020
- Publisher
- IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
- Keywords
- Neuromorphic system; on-chip learning; sparse coding; spiking neural network; spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP)
- Citation
- IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, v.14, no.1, pp.125 - 137
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
- Volume
- 14
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 125
- End Page
- 137
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/57852
- DOI
- 10.1109/TBCAS.2019.2963676
- ISSN
- 1932-4545
- Abstract
- Two main bottlenecks encountered when implementing energy-efficient spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) based sparse coding, are the complex computation of winner-take-all (WTA) operation and repetitive neuronal operations in the time domain processing. In this article, we present an energy-efficient STDP based sparse coding processor. The low-cost hardware is based on the algorithmic reduction techniques as following: First, the complex WTA operation is simplified based on the prediction of spike emitting neurons. Sparsity based approximation in spatial and temporal domain are also efficiently exploited to remove the redundant neurons with negligible algorithmic accuracy loss. We designed and implemented the hardware of the STDP based sparse coding using 65nm CMOS process. By exploiting input sparsity, the proposed SNN architecture can dynamically trade off algorithmic quality for computation energy (up to 74%) for Natural image (maximum 0.01 RMSE increment) and MNIST (no accuracy loss) applications. In the inference mode of operations, the SNN hardware achieves the throughput of 374 Mpixels/s and 840.2 GSOP/s with the energy-efficiency of 781.52 pJ/pixel and 0.35 pJ/SOP.
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