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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 3176
TOKYO, February 14, 2018 - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today it has developed a compact hardware artificial intelligence (AI) technology that can be implemented on small-scale field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that users and designers can configure to develop tailored applications. Mitsubishi Electric leveraged its Maisart*-brand AI technology to achieve a solution that uses a highly efficient calculation order and optimized circuit architecture for improved real-time processing and reduced costs, which is expected to expand the scope of AI deployment in home appliances, elevators, high-precision maps and more.
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Key Features
- 1) Compact AI enables fast real-time processing in FPGAs
- Improved calculation-order efficiency and optimized circuit architecture for FPGA implementation.
- Reduces inference computations to one-tenth** the time of conventional AI and improves real-time processing.
- ** Compared to Mitsubishi Electric's existing technology that implements conventional deep learning on FPGAs
- 2)Compact, small-scale circuit architecture will expand usage of AI in FPGAs
- Miniaturized circuit architecture realizes compact AI for implementation in small-scale FPGAs, as well as embedded CPUs, for reduced costs and energy consumption.
- Small-scale FPGA implementation will broaden scope of AI application in home appliances, elevators, high-precision maps and other products/fields where AI usage has been limited by high costs.
Development Summary
| Processing time on the same scale FPGA | FPGA scale required for the same level inference | Bands/standards | |
| Proposed | Compact AI on FPGA | Short(1/10th of conventional time**) | 3 |
| Conventional Technology | 12 dB | 35% | 1 |
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