FixyFPGA: Efficient FPGA Accelerator for Deep Neural Networks with High Element-Wise Sparsity and without External Memory Access

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become very popular in real-time computer vision systems. CNNs involve a large amount of computation and storage and typically demand a highly efficient computing platform. Researchers have explored a diverse range of software and hardware optimizations to accelerate CNN inference in recent years. The high power consumption of GPUs and the lack of flexibil...