A shared systolic array computes tanh, sigmoid, ReLU, and softmax via Chebyshev polynomial approximation, with reported error and area/power advantages over CORDIC.
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A Systolic Array Architecture for Nonlinear Activation Functions and Softmax Computation using Chebyshev Polynomials
A shared systolic array computes tanh, sigmoid, ReLU, and softmax via Chebyshev polynomial approximation, with reported error and area/power advantages over CORDIC.