Equation 1 · How AI Accelerator Architecture Actually Works
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Symbol I^*
is the quantity selected or evaluated by the optimization written on the right.
Symbol P_max
ax appears in the objective or constraint used by the optimization on the right.
Symbol β
β appears in the objective or constraint used by the optimization on the right.
=
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
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The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.
superscript
A raised number can be a power. When it is a label or bound, it selects a case or the upper limit of a sum; the formula’s structure distinguishes these uses.
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The roofline model’s ridge point, = / , says whether a kernel’s arithmetic intensity is high enough that memory bandwidth is not the binding constraint [ 7 ] . It says nothing about whether the array can actually deliver once that bar is cleared, because itself assumes every cell is doing useful work on every cycle — and a real systolic pipeline spends some of its cycles filling and draining rather than computing.
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