MANOJAVAM: A Scalable, Unified FPGA Accelerator for Matrix Multiplication and Singular Value Decomposition in Principal Component Analysis

TL;DR

MANOJAVAM is a scalable FPGA-based accelerator unifying matrix multiplication and SVD for PCA, achieving significant speedups and energy efficiency on real-world datasets.

Contribution

It introduces a unified, scalable FPGA architecture for PCA that combines matrix multiplication and SVD, overcoming prior limitations.

Findings

Achieves up to 22.75x speedup in SVD latency.

Reduces total energy consumption by up to 42.14x.

Demonstrates high-frequency operation on FPGA platforms.

Abstract

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is widely used for dimensionality reduction in hyperspectral imaging, genomics, and neurosciences. However, it suffers from computational bottlenecks in matrix multiplication and singular value decomposition (SVD). Prior PCA hardware accelerators either target only one of these stages, rely on High Level Synthesis (HLS) that limits microarchitectural optimizations or use fixed point datapaths with limited dataset scalability. There is a need for a unified PCA accelerator that is suitable for datasets of any input dimension. Hence, the proposed work presents MANOJAVAM, a scalable PCA accelerator fabric, unifying matrix multiplication and SVD in a single architecture. MANOJAVAM(T,S) comprises an S number of TxT TPU-style systolic arrays employing block streaming for high-throughput matrix multiplication. It further integrates a highly parallel Jacobian unit implementing the Jacobi method for SVD with pipelined CORDIC based rotations. A two tier cache hierarchy and mode-aware memory policies adapts to the distinct memory access patterns of covariance matrix and rotation computation. For demonstration, MANOJAVAM(4,8) is realized on a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA, achieving a frequency of 200 MHz at 1.271W. MANOJAVAM(16,32) is realized on Xilinx Virtex-Ultrascale+ FPGA, achieving a frequency of 434 MHz at 16.957W. Benchmarking on real-world datasets reveals that MANOJAVAM(16,32) achieves up to a 22.75x speedup in SVD latency and a 42.14x reduction in total energy consumption compared to a high-performance NVIDIA A6000 GPU. The architecture offers a unified, scalable, and energy-efficient platform for large-scale data analytics in both high-performance and edge-computing environments.