Equation 18 · Part 1 · How AI Accelerator Architecture Actually Works
Symbol c
What this part means
c is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
c is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol c→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
As the streamed sequence L grows large relative to the array’s dimensions, approaches one and the fill-and-drain overhead becomes negligible. But when L is comparable to r and c — a small batch, a short sequence, a matrix dimension that barely exceeds the array’s own size — the overhead is not a rounding error, it is a large fraction of every pass through the array. This is a simplified model, not a specification of any one vendor’s pipeline, but it is the same effect…
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [2] In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit ↗
- [6] SCALE-Sim: Systolic CNN Accelerator Simulator ↗
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