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ARXIV:2604.19106 · EDGE AI · SUBMITTED 22 APR · 02:16 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2604.19106EDGE AISUBMITTED 22 APR · 02:16 UTCFRESHNESS STALEZhenghua Ma · G Abarajithan · Dimitrios Danopoulos · Olivia Weng · Francesco Restuccia · Ryan Kastner · arXiv
Provides design rules and a new metric to determine when to use AI Engines over programmable logic for extreme-edge scientific computing.
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Evidence 44 refs | 3 sources | 67% coverage
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Provides design rules and a new metric to determine when to use AI Engines over programmable logic for extreme-edge scientific computing. Their stringent latency and throughput requirements demand small batch sizes and require that…
Extreme-edge scientific applications use machine learning models to analyze sensor data and make real-time decisions. Their stringent latency and throughput requirements demand small batch sizes and require that model weights remain fully on-chip.
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 6.0/10 on the public viability pass. Finally, we demonstrate the successful deployment of end-to-end neural networks on AI Engines that cannot fit on programmable logic when using the hlsml toolchain.…
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Provides design rules and a new metric to determine when to use AI Engines over programmable logic for extreme-edge scientific computing.
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10.48550/arXiv.2604.19106Provides design rules and a new metric to determine when to use AI Engines over programmable logic for extreme-edge scientific computing.
Abstract
Extreme-edge scientific applications use machine learning models to analyze sensor data and make real-time decisions. Their stringent latency and throughput requirements demand small batch sizes and require that model weights remain fully on-chip. Spatial dataflow implementations are common for extreme-edge applications. Spatial dataflow works well for small networks, but it fails to scale to larger models due to inherent resource scaling limitations. AI Engines on modern FPGA SoCs offer a promising alternative with high compute density and additional on-chip memory. However, the architecture, programming model, and performance-scaling behavior of AI Engines differ fundamentally from those of the programmable logic, making direct comparison non-trivial and the benefits of using AI Engines unclear. This work addresses how and when extreme-edge scientific neural networks should be implemented on AI Engines versus programmable logic. We provide systematic architectural characterization and micro-benchmarking and introduce a latency-adjusted resource equivalence (LARE) metric that identifies when AI Engine implementations outperform programmable logic designs. We further propose spatial and API-level dataflow optimizations tailored to low-latency scientific inference. Finally, we demonstrate the successful deployment of end-to-end neural networks on AI Engines that cannot fit on programmable logic when using the hlsml toolchain.
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Provides design rules and a new metric to determine when to use AI Engines over programmable logic for extreme-edge scientific computing. Their stringent latency and throughput requirements demand small batch sizes and require that model weights remain fully on-chip.
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Extreme-edge scientific applications use machine learning models to analyze sensor data and make real-time decisions. Their stringent latency and throughput requirements demand small batch sizes and require that model weights remain fully on-chip.
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 6.0/10 on the public viability pass. Finally, we demonstrate the successful deployment of end-to-end neural networks on AI Engines that cannot fit on programmable logic when using the hlsml toolchain. Code availability is flagged in the prod...
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Edge AI moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 6.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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