BioCare: An Energy-Efficient CGRA for Bio-Signal Processing at the Edge
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Abstract
Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Architectures (CGRAs) have proved to be viable platforms for health monitoring applications. Targeting energy-efficiency, state-of-the-art (SoA) CGRAs are augmented with approximation techniques, while still maintain acceptable accuracy at final Quality of Result (QoR). However, such CGRAs suffer from overheads of collecting separate Add/Mul/Div units. We propose BioCare as an area- and energy-efficient CGRA for health-monitoring edge devices, which exploits the synergistic effects of multiple approximations across HW/SW stack. BioCare offers different levels of energy-accuracy trade-off through the plasticity of its small PEs, each can support precision-adaptability with a Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD) manner. BioCare demonstrates its superiority over SoAs, by achieving up to 32% and 67% area- and energy-savings, with 3.6 χ higher throughput. In addition to analysis on multiple kernels, evaluations on a multi-kernel ECG application shows that BioCare speed-ups the QRS detection latency by 61%, with 0% loss in accuracy. Our implementations will be available at https://cfaed.tu-dresden.de/pd-downloads.
Details
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2021 - Proceedings |
Publisher | IEEE Xplore |
Pages | 1-5 |
Number of pages | 5 |
ISBN (print) | 978-1-7281-9201-7 |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Publication series
Series | IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) |
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ISSN | 0271-4302 |
External IDs
Scopus | 85108986160 |
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Keywords
Research priority areas of TU Dresden
Sustainable Development Goals
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Keywords
- Approximate computing, Bio-signal, CGRA, ECG, Edge computing, EEG, Energy-Efficiency, SIMD