首页|Studies from Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering Yield New Data on Machine Learning (Analysis and Codesign of Electronic-photonic Integrated Circuit Hardware Accelerator for Machine Learning Application)
Studies from Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering Yield New Data on Machine Learning (Analysis and Codesign of Electronic-photonic Integrated Circuit Hardware Accelerator for Machine Learning Application)
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Investigators publish new report on Machine Learning. According to news reporting originating in Chennai, India, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Innovations in deep learning technology have recently focused on photonics as a computing medium. Integrating an electronic and photonic approach is the main focus of this work utilizing various photonic architectures for machine learning applications.” Funders for this research include Siemens AG, MathWorks, Inc. The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering, “The speed, power, and reduced footprint of these photonic hardware accelerators (HA) are expected to greatly enhance inference. In this work, we propose a hybrid design of an electronic and photonic integrated circuit (EPIC) hardware accelerator (EPICHA), an electronic-photonic framework that uses architecture-level integrations for better performance. The proposed EPICHA has a systematic structure of reconfigurable directional couplers (RDCs) to build a scalable, efficient machine learning accelerator for inference applications. In the simulation framework, the input and output layers of a fully integrated photonic neural network use the same integrated photodetector and RDC technology as the activation function. Our system only compromises on latency because of the electro-optical conversion process and the hand-off between the electronic and photonic domains. Insertion losses in photonic components have a small negative impact on accuracy when using more deep learning stages. Our proposed EPICHA utilizes coherent operation, and hence uses a single wavelength of lambda = 1550 nm. We used the interoperability feature of the Ansys Lumerical MODE, DEVICE, and INTERCONNECT tools for component modeling in the photonic and electrical domain, and circuit-level simulation using S-parameters with MATLAB. The electronic component acts as the controller, which generates the required analog voltage control signals for each RDC present in the photonic processing engine.”
ChennaiIndiaAsiaCyborgsEmerging TechnologiesMachine LearningTechnologyDepartment of Electrical and Communication Engineering
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