AI Accelerator Design · All levels

AI Accelerator Glossary

Shared vocabulary across architecture, compiler mapping, runtime scheduling, and silicon signoff.

Terms to use precisely

Dataflow: operand and partial-sum movement policy across compute fabric.
Stationary style: operand class kept local to maximize reuse.
Operator fusion: combining graph operations to reduce intermediate traffic.
Structured sparsity: constrained zero patterns that hardware can exploit efficiently.
Perf-per-watt: delivered workload throughput normalized by consumed power.
Guardrail replay: fixed regression matrix used for release-safe validation.