NeuroFlex: Lossless Element-Level ANN-SNN Co-Execution for Efficient Sparse Inference
Sparse DNN accelerators specialize in ANN or SNN execution, leaving energy or latency on the table when workload characteristics vary within a layer. Hybrid accelerator designs that switch modes at layer or tile granularity suffer from low PE utilization since one core type idles whenever the other is active. NeuroFlex...