Hardware design
Aidge plays a key role in designing innovative AI hardware such as ASICs. In the proposed approach, the part of the neural network dedicated to image feature extraction is hardwired directly into the silicon, while the remaining layers are optimised for the target application. Aidge enables this hardware/software co-design, in particular through efficient 4-bit quantization of a MobileNet v1 feature extractor. This optimisation reduces the required silicon area up to 8 times. Taken together, these innovations have a major impact on the industry, with energy consumption reduced by a factor of 1,000 compared with current market standards and low latency, enabling HD video processing on embedded systems.
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