Deep Learning ASIC Accelerator
What is deep learning accelerator? Deep Learning Accelerator is an AI computing device and is categorized as GPU, FPGA, and ASIC. Accelerator refers to an auxiliary computing device that complements the CPU, which is the main computing device in computer systems. As the CPU alone is limited in handling high-end graphics, the GPU has emerged as a graphics accelerator. As explained in the last article, graphic processing and deep learning are common in that parallel simple operations (multiplication, addition-oriented) processing dominate. Therefore, GPU is being used as a deep learning accelerator. FPGA (field programmable gate array) is a programmable chip, as the name suggests. The flexibility of changing the chip configuration to match the rapidly evolving deep learning model is an advantage, but on the contrary, it has the disadvantage of low efficiency. ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit), which will be mainly described below, is a processor specialized in deep learning ...