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SECDA Design Suite: Efficient HW-SW Co-Design of DNN Accelerators for Edge Inference

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The SECDA Design Suite is proposed, a set of specialized tools that enable an efficient design process for developing AI accelerators for edge inference, utilizing the SECDA design methodology, and provides a fully integrated environment that allows developers to design, deploy and evaluate new hardware architectures using FPGAs.

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