SAURIA

SAURIA (Systolic Array tensor Unit for aRtificial Intelligence Acceleration) is a CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) accelerator that efficiently executes heavy computations needed for neural network algorithms, such as 2D convolutions and general matrix-matrix multiplications. The accelerator is meant to be loosely coupled to a host CPU, which must manage its local memories (fetch input data and extract results) and configure its execution through a memory-mapped interface. Once the host has prepared and started the execution, SAURIA will perform the convolution independently, and raise an interrupt upon full completion.