Equation 1 · Part 2 · Edge AI Electronics and Sensor Systems: A First-Principles Introduction
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What this part means
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
Its job in the formula
The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.
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The passage around this formula
TOPS , tera-operations per second, measures raw throughput: how many multiply-accumulate operations a chip can, in principle, perform in a second. It says nothing about power, and by itself it is close to useless for comparing edge hardware, because a processor is free to spend arbitrarily large power to hit a large TOPS number. The metric that actually matters for a battery-powered or thermally constrained device is efficiency — operations delivered per unit of energy, conventionally reported as TOPS per watt : . Because a watt is a joule per second, measured this way is numerically the same quantity as operations delivered per joule. That equivalence matters because…
Learn the underlying idea
An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [5] Eyeriss: An Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable Accelerator for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks ↗
- [3] Quantization and Training of Neural Networks for Efficient Integer-Arithmetic-Only Inference ↗
- [10] MCUNet: Tiny Deep Learning on IoT Devices ↗
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