  DNN accelerators are often developed and evaluated in isolation without
considering the cross-stack, system-level effects in real-world environments.
This makes it difficult to appreciate the impact of System-on-Chip (SoC)
resource contention, OS overheads, and programming-stack inefficiencies on
overall performance/energy-efficiency. To address this challenge, we present
Gemmini, an open-source*, full-stack DNN accelerator generator. Gemmini
generates a wide design-space of efficient ASIC accelerators from a flexible
architectural template, together with flexible programming stacks and full SoCs
with shared resources that capture system-level effects. Gemmini-generated
accelerators have also been fabricated, delivering up to three
orders-of-magnitude speedups over high-performance CPUs on various DNN
benchmarks.
  * https://github.com/ucb-bar/gemmini
