Efficient Posit Multiply-Accumulate Unit Generator for Deep Learning Applications
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Abstract
The recently proposed posit number system is more accurate and can provide a wider dynamic range than the conventional IEEE754-2008 floating-point numbers. Its nonuniform data representation makes it suitable in deep learning applications. Posit adder and posit multiplier have been well developed recently in the literature. However, the use of posit in fused arithmetic unit has not been investigated yet. In order to facilitate the use of posit number format in deep learning applications, in this paper, an efficient architecture of posit multiply-accumulate (MAC) unit is proposed. Unlike IEEE754-2008 where four standard binary number formats are presented, the posit format is more flexible where the total bitwidth and exponent bitwidth can be any number. Therefore, in this proposed design, bitwidths of all datapath are parameterized and a posit MAC unit generator written in C language is proposed. The proposed generator can generate Verilog HDL code of posit MAC unit for any given total bitwidth and exponent bitwidth. The code generated by the generator is a combinational design, however a 5-stage pipeline strategy is also presented and analyzed in this paper. The worst case delay, area, and power consumption of the generated MAC unit under STM-28nm library with different bitwidth choices are provided and analyzed.
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