Overview
High-end multi-core AI accelerator targeted for neural network inference workloads from 4 to 100s of TOPS
The Cadence® Tensilica® NNA multi-core accelerator platform is a configurable IP cluster comprising of multiple (1 to 8) NNA 110 single-core IP. The specialized hardware compute accelerators inside the NNA multi-core accelerator leverages features like true random sparsity, tensor compression / decompression to provide an overall high-end AI accelerator solution. A single NNA multi-core cluster can scale from 256 to 16K MACs for 8x8-bit computations. Multiple such clusters can be assembled to reach 100s of TOPS. NNA 110 multi-core accelerator deliverables comprises of turnkey soft RTL IP, multi-core workload mapper toolchain, and simulator for benchmarking. The NNA multi-core accelerator includes all the IP in one bundled package, which enables customers to achieve faster time to market.

Key Benefits
Scalable, configurable hardware and software turnkey solution
Fast Time to Market for customers that can leverage hardware IP, software toolchain and simulator environment
True sparse compute engine and Tensor compression
Exploits activation/weight random sparsity and lossless compression/de-compression logic
Configurable Internal SRAM Lowers Overall AXI Bandwidth Consumption with Boost in Performance
Minimize data movement across external system bus thus greatly reducing overall power
Best-in-Class Inference Latency and Throughput at Lowest Area and Power Footprint
Achieve linear scaling from single-core to multi-core across all KPIs for various workloads
End-to-End Turnkey XNNC Multi-Core Workload Mapper
Optimal workload partitioning to optimize over space and time axis, vectorization schemes, and resource utilization
Mixed-Precision Support in Hardware and Software
Supports 8-bit/16-bit quantized format with accuracy approaching floating-point model fidelity
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