Hardware Reconfigurable Neural Networks 2 Reconfigurability Using Fpgas
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General-purpose processors perform various tasks, such as scientific computation or image processing. However, the performance of dedicated circuits (ASICs) are much better. Unfortunately, these circuits only perform a very specific task and their development cost is important. The availability of reconfigurable circuits (like FPGAs) opens the way to new interesting architectures. This paper presents the concept of reconfigurable systems based on FPGAs. It then briefly describes RENCO, a reconfigurable network computer, which is a platform for the prototyping of logic designs or reconfigurable systems, before explaining our current research in hardware reconfigurable neural networks.
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