DesignWare ARC EV CNN Engine Option

The DesignWare ARC EV6x Embedded Vision Processors offer an optional convolutional neural network (CNN) engine for fast and accurate object detection, classification and scene segmentation. The EV6x supports any CNN, including popular networks such as AlexNet, VGG16, GoogLeNet, Yolo, Faster R-CNN, SqueezeNet, and ResNet.

Designers can run CNN graphs originally trained for 32-bit floating point hardware on the EV6x’s 12-bit CNN engine, significantly reducing the power and area of their designs while maintaining the same levels of detection accuracy as a 16-bit engine. The EV6x’s CNN hardware also supports 8-bit precision for lower memory bandwidth and power use.

The EV6x’s CNN engine delivers power efficiency of up to 2,000 GMACs/sec/W when implemented in 16-nm FinFET process technologies (worst-case operating conditions).

The MetaWare EV Development Toolkit includes a CNN mapping tool that analyzes neural networks trained using popular frameworks like Caffe and Tensorflow, and automatically generates the executable for the programmable CNN engine. For maximum flexibility and future-proofing, the tool can also distribute computations between the vision CPU and CNN resources to support new and emerging neural network algorithms as well as customer-specific CNN layers.

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Fast, accurate object detection with a programmable CNN engine
Offers power efficiency of up to 2000 GMACs/sec/W in worst-case operating conditions when implemented in 16-nm FinFET processes
Supports both coefficient and feature map compression/decompression to reduce data bandwidth requirements and decrease power consumption
High productivity MetaWare EV Development Toolkit’s CNN mapping tool automatically dispatches processing tasks to available hardware resources for faster execution

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Description:	CNN 1760 MAC Option
Name:	dwc_ev_cnn_1760_mac_option
Version:	2.20b
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Documentation:	Show Documents... Hide Documents... Databooks DesignWare ARC Trace Databook (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) DesignWare DNN Accelerator EV6x Databook (EV6x 2.20a) ( PDF ) DesignWare DNN Accelerator EV6x Databook (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) DesignWare EV6x Processor Databook (EV6x 2.20a) ( PDF ) DesignWare EV6x Processor Databook (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) HAPS Reference Design Flow Databook (EV6x 2.20a) ( PDF ) HAPS Reference Design Flow Databook (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) Reference Manuals ARCv2 ISA Programmers Reference for DW EV6x (EV6x 2.20a) ( PDF ) ARCv2 ISA Programmers Reference for DW EV6x (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) User Guides ASIC Reference Design Flow Users Guide (EV6x 2.20a) ( PDF ) ASIC Reference Design Flow Users Guide (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) DesignWare EV6x Implementation and Integration Guide (EV6x 2.20a) ( PDF ) DesignWare EV6x Implementation and Integration Guide (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) EV6x Synthesis and Physical Implementation User Guide (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF )
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Product Code:	B869-0, B870-0, B871-0, C173-0, C623-0, C624-0, C769-0, D107-0, E941-0, E942-0, E943-0

Description:	CNN 3520 MAC Option
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Documentation:	Show Documents... Hide Documents... Databooks DesignWare ARC Trace Databook (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) DesignWare DNN Accelerator EV6x Databook (EV6x 2.20a) ( PDF ) DesignWare DNN Accelerator EV6x Databook (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) DesignWare EV6x Processor Databook (EV6x 2.20a) ( PDF ) DesignWare EV6x Processor Databook (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) HAPS Reference Design Flow Databook (EV6x 2.20a) ( PDF ) HAPS Reference Design Flow Databook (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) Reference Manuals ARCv2 ISA Programmers Reference for DW EV6x (EV6x 2.20a) ( PDF ) ARCv2 ISA Programmers Reference for DW EV6x (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) User Guides ASIC Reference Design Flow Users Guide (EV6x 2.20a) ( PDF ) ASIC Reference Design Flow Users Guide (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) DesignWare EV6x Implementation and Integration Guide (EV6x 2.20a) ( PDF ) DesignWare EV6x Implementation and Integration Guide (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) EV6x Synthesis and Physical Implementation User Guide (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF )
Download:	ev-vision_processor
Product Code:	B869-0, B870-0, B871-0, C173-0, C623-0, C624-0, C769-0, D107-0, E941-0, E942-0, E943-0

Description:	CNN 880 MAC Option
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Version:	2.20b
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Documentation:	Show Documents... Hide Documents... Databooks DesignWare ARC Trace Databook (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) DesignWare DNN Accelerator EV6x Databook (EV6x 2.20a) ( PDF ) DesignWare DNN Accelerator EV6x Databook (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) DesignWare EV6x Processor Databook (EV6x 2.20a) ( PDF ) DesignWare EV6x Processor Databook (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) HAPS Reference Design Flow Databook (EV6x 2.20a) ( PDF ) HAPS Reference Design Flow Databook (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) Reference Manuals ARCv2 ISA Programmers Reference for DW EV6x (EV6x 2.20a) ( PDF ) ARCv2 ISA Programmers Reference for DW EV6x (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) User Guides ASIC Reference Design Flow Users Guide (EV6x 2.20a) ( PDF ) ASIC Reference Design Flow Users Guide (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) DesignWare EV6x Implementation and Integration Guide (EV6x 2.20a) ( PDF ) DesignWare EV6x Implementation and Integration Guide (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF ) EV6x Synthesis and Physical Implementation User Guide (EV6x 2.20b) ( PDF )
Download:	ev-vision_processor
Product Code:	B869-0, B870-0, B871-0, C173-0, C623-0, C624-0, C769-0, D107-0, E941-0, E942-0, E943-0