What is it about?
FIONA is a Full-stack Infrastructure for Optical Neural Accelerator, which comprises a photonicelectronic co-simulation framework for multi-level design space exploration (DSE), and a transferable hardware prototyping template for physical verification.
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Why is it important?
We present the FIONA toolchain with LightRocket as a case study demonstrating the entire workflow of designing a Turing-complete photonic accelerator system. Compared to state-of-the-art commercial electronic accelerators that mainly adopt the systolic-array scheme, the photonic accelerators fully exploit the analogue computing paradigm and therefore are more promising but sophisticated. Any math-meaningful optical phenomena can serve operators. We anticipate that FIONA can bring up an ecosystem that all the photonic operators can build and share in a unified standard to enable fast migration and exploration for futuristic high-performance photonic computing.
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This page is a summary of: FIONA: Photonic-Electronic CoSimulation Framework and Transferable Prototyping for Photonic Accelerator, October 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
DOI: 10.1109/iccad57390.2023.10323920.
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