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Satoshi Kawakam, Yusuke Ohtsubo, Koji Inoue and Masamitsu Tanaka, Late Breaking Results: Single Flux Quantum based Brownian Circuits for Ultra-Low-Power Computing, In Proceedings of Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2024.03. |
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Koki Ishida, Ilkwon Byun, Ikki Nagaoka, Kousuke Fukumitsu, Masamitsu Tanaka, Satoshi Kawakami, Teruo Tanimoto, Takatsugu Ono, Jangwoo Kim, and Koji Inoue, Superconductor Computing for Neural Networks, IEEE Micro, 2021.06. |
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Koki Ishida, Ilkwon Byun, Ikki Nagaoka, Kousuke Fukumitsu, Masamitsu Tanaka, Satoshi Kawakami, Teruo Tanimoto, Takatsugu Ono, Jangwoo Kim, and Koji Inoue, Architecting an Extremely Fast Neural Processing Unit Using Superconducting Logic Devices, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchtecture, 2020.10. |
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Ken Ichi Kitayama, Masaya Notomi, Makoto Naruse, Koji Inoue, Satoshi Kawakami, Atsushi Uchida, Novel frontier of photonics for data processing-Photonic accelerator, APL Photonics, 10.1063/1.5108912, 4, 9, 2019.09, In the emerging Internet of things cyber-physical system-embedded society, big data analytics needs huge computing capability with better energy efficiency. Coming to the end of Moore's law of the electronic integrated circuit and facing the throughput limitation in parallel processing governed by Amdahl's law, there is a strong motivation behind exploring a novel frontier of data processing in post-Moore era. Optical fiber transmissions have been making a remarkable advance over the last three decades. A record aggregated transmission capacity of the wavelength division multiplexing system per a single-mode fiber has reached 115 Tbit/s over 240 km. It is time to turn our attention to data processing by photons from the data transport by photons. A photonic accelerator (PAXEL) is a special class of processor placed at the front end of a digital computer, which is optimized to perform a specific function but does so faster with less power consumption than an electronic general-purpose processor. It can process images or time-serial data either in an analog or digital fashion on a real-time basis. Having had maturing manufacturing technology of optoelectronic devices and a diverse array of computing architectures at hand, prototyping PAXEL becomes feasible by leveraging on, e.g., cutting-edge miniature and power-efficient nanostructured silicon photonic devices. In this article, first the bottleneck and the paradigm shift of digital computing are reviewed. Next, we review an array of PAXEL architectures and applications, including artificial neural networks, reservoir computing, pass-gate logic, decision making, and compressed sensing. We assess the potential advantages and challenges for each of these PAXEL approaches to highlight the scope for future work toward practical implementation.. |
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Satoshi Kawakami, Takatsugu Ono, Toshiyuki Ohtsuka, Inoue Koji, Parallel precomputation with input value prediction for model predictive control systems, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 10.1587/transinf.2018PAP0003, E101D, 12, 2864-2877, 2018.12, We propose a parallel precomputation method for real-time model predictive control. The key idea is to use predicted input values produced by model predictive control to solve an optimal control problem in advance. It is well known that control systems are not suitable for multi- or many-core processors because feedback-loop control systems are inherently based on sequential operations. However, since the proposed method does not rely on conventional thread-/data-level parallelism, it can be easily applied to such control systems without changing the algorithm in applications. A practical evaluation using three real-world model predictive control system simulation programs demonstrates drastic performance improvement without degrading control quality offered by the proposed method..  |
