Balancing Flexibility and Efficiency
The discussion emphasizes the importance of simulating workloads to inform hardware design, allowing for a top-down approach. By inverting questions about dynamic execution, they ensure flexibility is built into the hardware while maintaining high efficiency. The strategy involves optimizing the main data path and incorporating a small processor for control decisions, effectively merging flexibility with performance.In this clip
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