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Why an accelerator uses local SRAM

TechniquesArchAcceleratorSRAMData reuse
DifficultyEasy
TopicComputer Architecture
LanguageSystemVerilog
Format4 choices
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Problem

A compute tile repeatedly reuses a small block of weights and activations while external DRAM has much higher access cost. What is the main architectural benefit of placing that block in tile-local SRAM?

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Answer choices (4)