Hardwired Distributed Processing Units for Inference: Neural Decisions at the Sensor that Free the Host

We show that a hardwired distributed processing unit (HDPU) can take a neural decision at the sensor and so remove the inference from the host. Built for zebra-crossing detection on a low-cost Artix-7 FPGA, the unit decides on every camera frame in a fixed 2,269,477 clock cycles (34.04 ms depends upon Fpga clk ), inside the 37.49-ms frame period, and on the board it returns the same scores and decisions as its bit-exact software model on all 639 test images. The whole detection path, from camer…

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