The revolutionary impact of advances in artificial intelligence on consumer and industrial electronics has significantly increased the demand for specialized processing units for AI workloads. AI-Processor Electronics: Basic Technology of Artificial Intelligence explores the principles and technology behind these processors, which perform fast, energy-efficient data processing and complex computations. The book begins with an overview of AI, machine learning, and deep learning, and a brief introduction to digital computer electronics. It highlights the limitations of traditional CPUs in modern AI, discussing parallel computing and AI-optimized hardware that are specially tailored and adapted to meet AI requirements. The book then covers various AI processors, including graphical, tensor, neural, convolutional neural network, vision, sparse neural network, graph analytics, associative memory, and quantum processing units.
Key features:
- Provides a review of the physics of operation of a diverse variety of representative AI processors, and the key concepts and innovations underlying their development
- Covers the underlying principles, technologies, opportunities and future prospects
- Highlights the inadequacies of general-purpose processors in meeting the computationally intensive needs of artificial intelligence workloads
- Elucidates the use of parallel processing architecture in simultaneously performing multiple calculations across data streams
- Explores the concepts of neuromorphic and quantum computing to address the growing demands of big data in AI
Table of Content
Chapter 1: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and generative artificial intelligence
Chapter 2: Computing electronics fundamentals
Chapter 3: Central processing unit and the von Neumann bottleneck
Chapter 4: Parallel computing architecture
Chapter 5: Optimised AI-computing within physical limites of transitors
Chapter 6: Graphical processing unit
Chapter 7: Tensor processing unit
Chapter 8: Neural processing unit
Chapter 9: Convolution neural network processor, and the vision processing unit
Chapter 10: Conpressed and sparse neural network processors
Chapter 11: Graph analytics processor for graph algorithm computations
Chapter 12: Associative processing unit
Chapter 13: Quantum computing principles and devices
Chapter 14: Quantum logic gates and circuits
Chapter 15: Quantum processing unit
About the author
Vinod Kumar Khanna is a former Emeritus Scientist at CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani, India, and Emeritus Professor at the Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research, India. He is a retired Chief Scientist and Head of the MEMS & Microsensors Group, CSIR-CEERI, Pilani.
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