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ASAP 2017
Ramine Roane
Sr Dir Product Planning
July 12, 2017

2. Xilinx “All Programmable” Solutions Coverage
Computer Architecture
Digital Logic
Image and Video
Processing
On Chip
Networks
Speech Recognition
FEC Coding
Hardware Software
Co-Design
Encryption
Ideal for Teaching and Research
CAD Tools
Dynamically
Reconfigurable
Systems
High Performance
Computing
Networking
Configurable
Computing
Digital Signal
Processing
Embedded Systems
Robotics

3. Examples of State-of-the-Art Projects
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4. Enabling Innovation from the Edge to the Cloud
Innovation at
Cloud scale
Innovation at the edge
Application Developers
(Python, C, C++, OpenCL, VHDL, Verilog…)

5. FPGA Accelerators at Cloud Scale
Genomics
Big Data Analytics
Search
10x
70-80x
Financial Analytics
>50x
10-100x
5-10x less power
Machine Learning
Video Transcoding
Xilinx reduced precision DNN
>10x GPU
>25x
programming models
Cloud-based (Xilinx tools on the Cloud)
On-Premise tools (install locally) – free for Universities

6. Hot Research: Machine Learning & Custom Optimization
Trimming, Compression
Reduced, fixed point vs. FP16
CNN moving to int16 and int8 with little loss in accuracy
Research in BNN is improving quickly 1-bit accuracy
The extreme case of 1-bit Precision
Expense in accuracy but improving quickly
HOT Research Area!

7. Custom Precision & Performance Advantage
TOPS 1b 93 22
221 P4
TPU
XLNX
Reducing precision from 8b to 1b shrinks cost by 64x
Potential to scale CNN performance to above 200TOPS
TOPS 8b 8b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 4x 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b
Theoretical peak for TPU and P4 and VU13P, 1.25LUTs/op, 400MHz, 80% 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 4b
Opensourced for PYNQ 93 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b
64x 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 22 22 10 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b
TPU P4
XLNX

8. Takeaways
Xilinx “All Programmable” devices ideal of research in EE & CS
Hardware programmability enables novel approaches & breakthroughs
From the Edge to the Cloud
Strong University program that supports young researchers