Artificial Intelligence Applications and Reconfigurable Architectures

This book covers the features of modern Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) devices, design techniques and successful implementations pertaining to AI applications. It describes various hardware options available for AI applications, key advantages of FPGAs, contemporary FPGA ICs with software support. The focus is on exploiting parallelism offered by FPGA to meet heavy computation requirements of AI as complete hardware implementation or customized hardware accelerators. This is a comprehensive text book on the subject covering broad array of topics like technological platforms for implementation of AI, capabilities of FPGA, suppliers’ software tools and hardware boards and discussion of implementations done by researchers to encourage the AI community to use and experiment with FPGA.