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Snitch: A Tiny Pseudo Dual-Issue Processor for Area and Energy Efficient Execution of Floating-Point Intensive Workloads
October 2020 • Florian Zaruba, Fabian Schuiki, Torsten Hoefler, Luca Benini
Data-parallel applications, such as data analytics, machine learning, and\nscientific computing, are placing an ever-growing demand on floating-point\noperations per second on emerging systems. With increasing integration density,\nthe quest for energy efficiency becomes the number one design concern. While\ndedicated accelerators provide high energy efficiency, they are\nover-specialized and hard to adjust to algorithmic changes. We propose an\narchitectural concept that tackles the issues of achieving extreme en…