Authors
Kentaro Honda, Hakaru Tamukoh*
Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 2-4 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 808-0196, Japan
*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
Corresponding Author
Hakaru Tamukoh
Received 11 November 2019, Accepted 4 March 2020, Available Online 18 May 2020.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.k.200512.012How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Reservoir computing; echo state network; field programmable gate array
Abstract
This paper proposes implementation of an Echo State Network (ESN) to Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The proposed method is able to reduce hardware resources by using fixed-point operation, quantization of weights, which includes accumulate operations and efficient dataflow modules. The performance of the designed circuit is verified via experiments including prediction of sine and cosine waves. Experimental result shows that the proposed circuit supports to 200 MHz of operation frequency and facilitates faster computing of the ESN algorithm compared with a central processing unit.
Copyright
© 2020 The Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).