@inproceedings{0362d2482e684a588f62abf1d8b69917,
title = "The ZuSE-KI-Mobil AI Accelerator SoC: Overview and a Functional Safety Perspective",
abstract = "ZuSE-KI-Mobil (ZuKIMo) is a nationally funded research project, currently in its intermediate stage. The goal of the ZuKIMo project is to develop a new System-on-Chip (SoC) platform and corresponding ecosystem to enable efficient Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications with specific requirements. With ZuKIMo, we specifically target applications from the mobility domain, i.e. autonomous vehicles and drones. The initial ecosystem is built by a consortium consisting of seven partners from German academia and industry. We develop the SoC platform and its ecosystem around a novel AI accelerator design. The customizable accelerator is conceived from scratch to fulfill the functional and non-functional requirements derived from the ambitious use cases. A tape-out in 22 nm FDX-technology is planned in 2023. Apart from the System-on-Chip hardware design itself, the ZuKIMo ecosystem has the objective of providing software tooling for easy deployment of new use cases and hardware-CNN co-design. Furthermore, AI accelerators in safety-critical applications like our mobility use cases, necessitate the fulfillment of safety requirements. Therefore, we investigate new design methodologies for fault analysis of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and introduce our new redundancy mechanism for AI accelerators.",
keywords = "AI Accelerator, Development Methodology, Fault Simulation, Functional Safety, System-on-Chip",
author = "Fabian Kempf and Julian Hoefer and Tanja Harbaum and Juergen Becker and Nael Fasfous and Alexander Frickenstein and Voegel, {Hans Joerg} and Simon Friedrich and Robert Wittig and Emil Mat{\'u}{\v s} and Gerhard Fettweis and Matthias Lueders and Holger Blume and Jens Benndorf and Darius Grantz and Martin Zeller and Dietmar Engelke and Eickel, {Karl Heinz}",
note = "Funding Information: ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under grant number 16ME0096 (ZuSE-KI-mobil). The responsibility for the content of this publication lies with the authors. Furthermore, we thank GlobalFoundries, Synopsys, Cadence, Arteris, and ARM for supporting this research.; 2023 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2023 ; Conference date: 17-04-2023 Through 19-04-2023",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.23919/DATE56975.2023.10137257",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings -Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2023 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2023 - Proceedings",
address = "United States",
}