A Low-cost Implementation Method on Deep Neural Network Using Stochastic Computing

The deep neural network (DNN) as the computing core of the multiplication operation consumes a lot of hardware resources, which is not conducive to the development of DNN on a hardware platform with limited resources. In order to solve the above problems, this paper proposes an acceleration method of basing on a deep neural network (DNN) to accelerate multiplication operations on resource-constrained hardware platforms. This method can support sparse calculations to optimize calculation delays. At the same time, inspired by neurosynaptic plasticity and stochastic computing (SC), an acceleration method using simple logic gates for reasoning tasks is proposed. Experimental results show that the hardware resource consumption of the proposed acceleration method is 1.4 times lower than that of the traditional method solution in DNN.