VENICE: A compact vector processor for FPGA applications
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper presents VENICE, a new soft vector processor (SVP) for FPGA applications. VENICE differs from previous SVPs in that it was designed for maximum throughput with a small number (1 to 4) of ALUs. By increasing clockspeed and eliminating bottlenecks in ALU utilization, VENICE can achieve over 2x better performance-per-logic block than VEGAS, the previous best SVP. While VENICE can scale to a large number of ALUs, a multiprocessor system of smaller VENICE SVPs is shown to scale better for benchmarks with limited innerloop parallelism. VENICE is also simpler to program, as its instructions use standard C pointers into a scratchpad memory rather than vector registers.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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