Sung Kim, Morteza Fayazi, A. Daftardar, Kuan-Yu Chen, Jielun Tan, S. Pal, T. Ajayi, Yan Xiong, T. Mudge, C. Chakrabarti, D. Blaauw, R. Dreslinski, Hun-Seok Kim
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We present Versa, an energy-efficient processor with 36 systolic ARM Cortex-M4F cores and a runtime-reconfigurable memory hierarchy. Versa exploits algorithm-specific characteristics in order to optimize bandwidth, access latency, and data reuse. Measured on a set of kernels with diverse data access, control, and synchronization characteristics, reconfiguration between different Versa modes yields median energy-efficiency improvements of 11.6× and 37.2× over mobile CPU and GPU baselines, respectively.
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