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Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science Année : 2024

Impact of High-Level-Synthesis on Reliability of Artificial Neural Network Hardware Accelerators

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Dedicated hardware is required to efficiently execute the highly resource-demanding modern Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). The high complexity of ANNs systems has motivated the use of High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools, which increase design abstraction. The higher abstraction reduces the implementation of FPGA hardware details visible to the designer, making an accurate reliability evaluation challenging. When ANN hardware accelerators are used in safety-critical systems, reliability becomes paramount, and in order to have a realistic reliability evaluation, physical fault injection, such as beam testing, is mandatory. Existing reliability analysis approaches focus on specific ANN hardware accelerator designs, but when HLS tools are used, the tool flow and design decisions can impact reliability. Therefore, we evaluate the error rate of ANN hardware accelerators generated by HLS tools under high-energy neutrons and explore the impact of HLS parameters on reliability. Our results show that by tweaking hardware parameters, such as the reuse of resources, can increase the error rate linearly. Furthermore, the generated ANN hardware accelerator with the best tradeoff of area and execution cycles can deliver 15× more correct executions than the least optimized one, despite its increased error rate.
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hal-04514579 , version 1 (21-03-2024)

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Marcello Traiola, Fernando Fernandes dos Santos, Paolo Rech, Carlo Cazzaniga, Olivier Sentieys, et al.. Impact of High-Level-Synthesis on Reliability of Artificial Neural Network Hardware Accelerators. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2024, pp.1-9. ⟨10.1109/TNS.2024.3377596⟩. ⟨hal-04514579⟩
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