Welcome to Tartan AI
Optimized Digital System Technologies for Deep Learning
Our Story
We’re a talented group of engineers with groundbreaking IP that we hope will contribute towards a better tomorrow.
Our work began as research within the University of Toronto and led to technologies that are now implemented on virtually all modern general-purpose processors including memory dependence prediction and snoop filtering.
At Tartan AI, we work with semiconductor companies to provide them with building blocks that reduce data communication, footprint, and computation for hardware acceleration of deep learning.
Our Innovative Technology
Developing Deep Learning Networks is hard enough, which is why at Tartan AI, we help you boost performance and energy efficiency by reducing the work, storage and communication needed when executing Machine Learning models in silicon.
Our technologies capitalize on the expected behavior of Deep Learning applications. These applications do not behave randomly but rather tend to exhibit specific idiosyncratic behaviors, particularly in the value access streams.
We target optimizations at the middleware and silicon hardware levels, with pre-built models, requiring no intervention from Machine Learning experts.
Products
Our IP portfolio covers technologies that reduce the cost of data storage and transfers, in addition to computations when performing multiply-accumulate operations.
In addition to Sparsity and Memory Compression additional benefits are enabled by:
Profiling tools for enhancing sparsity: near zero values that can be ignored
Profiling/training methods for reducing data width
Processing elements that support variable width data types up to the full spectrum at bit resolution, 1b to 16b in 1b or 2b steps
Bit-Skipping processing elements that skip all computations with zero bits
Specialized solutions for computational imaging taking advantage of spatial value locality
Low-cost High-Performance Through Sparsity
TensorDash is a deep learning component designed to deliver state-of-the-art performance with clever software-hardware co-design. This is achieved by exploiting sparsity during both training and inference on simple hardware design, using an innovative scheduler.
Media & Press
Building the computing engines that will power the machine learning revolution
JULY 19, 2018
As machine learning algorithms — such as those that enable Siri and Alexa to recognize voice commands — grow more sophisticated, so must the hardware required to run them. Professor Andreas Moshovos (ECE) heads a national research network that aims to create the next generation of computing engines optimized for artificial intelligence.
Exploiting Ineffectual Computations in Convolutional Neural Networks
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Eliminating computations where either the activation or the weight is zero, reduces the amount of computation and energy needed to execute Deep Learning Networks. This functionality has thus far being delegated mostly to costly hardware solutions. Dr. Moshovos shares details of how this functionality can be shared between a software scheduler and a lightweight hardware mechanism with results that outperform state-of-the-art sparse network accelerators by more than 3x.
Vector Institute’s Friday Seminars Series Presents Andreas Moshovos
DECEMBER 3, 2018
Andreas Moshovos, Tartan AI co-founder, University of Toronto Professor and Vector Institute Faculty Affiliate, discusses value-based deep learning hardware acceleration.
"The best way to predict the future is to create it"