VexRiscv is a quadcore, Linux-capable RISC-V softcore for FPGA

Re:VexRiscv is a quadcore, Linux-capable RISC-V softcore for... by anonymousDan on Thursday May 21, 2020 @06:02PM (#23265997)

I thought FPGAs were more power efficient than GPUs for many ML applications for example (CNNs aside)?

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Re:VexRiscv is a quadcore, Linux-capable RISC-V softcore for... by londons_explore on Thursday May 21, 2020 @06:20PM (#23266184)

For unusual ML architectures, like 1 bit precision, that might be true.

For anything using floating point maths, it isn't true.

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Re:VexRiscv is a quadcore, Linux-capable RISC-V softcore for... by anonymousDan on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:07AM (#23272895)

What about this paper then, section 5.1.2, energy efficiency: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2694344.2694347

Substantial gains in terms of performance per watt for FPGAs?

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