Softermax: Hardware/software co-design of an efficient softmax for transformers

JR Stevens, R Venkatesan, S Dai… - 2021 58th ACM/IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… To address this, we propose Softermax, a hardware-friendly softmax design. Softermax
consists of base replacement, low-precision softmax computations, and an online normalization …

Hardware methods for onboard control of fluidically actuated soft robots

K McDonald, T Ranzani - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 - frontiersin.org
towards integrating onboard control hardware within soft fluidic robots. In many cases, such
hardware … denote the physical location of hardware as being on or within a soft robot, and is …

Towards development in evolvable hardware

TGW Gordon, PJ Bentley - … Conference on Evolvable Hardware, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Here we describe two test-bed developmental systems for evolvable hardware problems, …
Nevertheless, this work provides some crucial steps towards applying the generative power …

Embodied intelligence in soft robotics through hardware multifunctionality

M Cianchetti - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… “soft robots”, but we will have many robots based on soft robotics principles. In any case,
efforts should be focused on understanding how to unleash the main essence of soft robotics …

A Hardware/Software Concept for Partial Logic Updates of Embedded Soft Processors at Runtime

T Scheipel, P Brungs, M Baunach - 2021 24th Euromicro …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Embedded systems are built from various hardware components and … hardware flexibility
through application-specific MCU modifications. Therefore, the MCU is implemented as a soft

Hardware Implementation of Soft Computing Approaches for an Intelligent Wall-following Vehicle

W Tsui - 2007 - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
… two controllers are implemented onto a reconfigurable hardware platform, namely a Field …
the two controllers in terms of hardware resource requirements, operational speeds and …

On evolvable hardware

TGW Gordon, PJ Bentley - Soft computing in industrial electronics, 2002 - books.google.com
… a procedural ordering bias towards working in simulation and in hardware by evaluating some
… This would place a procedural ordering bias towards innovative behavior not captured by …

[HTML][HTML] A study of the nonlinear dynamics of human behavior and its digital hardware implementation

AH ElSafty, MF Tolba, LA Said, AH Madian… - Journal of advanced …, 2020 - Elsevier
… 3(a) and (b) show the bifurcation diagrams for Romeo towards Juliet feelings R j in soft
nonlinearities case against parameters c and f. These figures meet the identity represented in …

Neuron MOS binary-logic integrated circuits. I. Design fundamentals and soft-hardware-logic circuit implementation

T Shibata, T Ohmi - IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 1993 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Then the circuit of a new concept which we call Soft Hardware Logic Circuit is introduced.
The experimental verification of these circuit ideas is also presented. In Part I1 (to be published…

Hardware/software co-design

G De Michell, RK Gupta - Proceedings of the IEEE, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… The trend toward smaller mask-level geometries leads to higher integration and higher cost
… on reconfigurable hardware can be applied to the speedup of arbitrary software programs …