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Tangent, but I suspect you've researched this topic more than I have -- do you know of any good source on the subject of FPGA NNs? It dawns on me that FPGAs mi
by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Tangent, but I suspect you've researched this topic more than I have -- do you know of any good source on the subject of FPGA NNs?
It dawns on me that FPGAs might actually be better than GPUs for a project I've been thinking about, but I know relatively little about state-of-the-art design/synthesis techniques.
- banachtarski 9y agoI've searched high and low and there isn't much, partially because the barrier to entry to both is really high. I've been experimenting a fair bit and might start blogging about both failed and successful experiments I've run on a Cyclone V FGPA but I'm not convinced there'd be a ton of interest. That said, I do not work at a company that uses FPGAs or proprietary hardware and I believe part of the reason the field is dark is because that's just how hardware development shops have operated.
- SomeStupidPoint 9y agoYour experience of it being hard to even get started because of the insular hardware community mirrors mine. (Well, I guess my employer does use FPGAs somewhere, but in a department far from me.) Are you just using a Cyclone V demo board? To be honest, it's actually a little hard to even find FPGA accelerators that aren't bespoke.