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Equation 4 · Part 1 · Edge AI Electronics and Sensor Systems in Practice: Quantization, Power Budgets, and Sensor Front Ends

Symbol S

S>0S > 0
SS

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S is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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S is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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where r is the real-valued number, q is the stored integer, S > 0 is a scale factor, and Z is an integer zero-point chosen so that real zero maps exactly onto a representable integer — a detail that matters because operations like zero-padding and ReLU depend on zero being represented without rounding error. Jacob and colleagues showed that with this…

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