Chapter 3: Hardware architecture
Abstract
This chapter explains the hardware architecture of the Huawei Ascend AI Processor. Firstly, the main components of the System on Chip (SoC) are introduced, including Control CPU, AI Core, AI CPU, Cache/Buffer, and Digital Vision Preprocessing (DVPP) module. The main part of AI computation is AI Core, which is designed following Huawei’s DaVinci architecture. In this chapter, the DaVinci architecture is explained in detail, covering its computing unit, memory system, control units, and instruction set design. At the end of the chapter, it is explained in detail how convolution operation is accelerated in the Ascend AI processor. A comparison between different AI processor architectures is also provided. ...
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