hardware-software co-design

Definition of hardware-software co-design

1. : the joint design and optimization of computing hardware and software so that AI models, algorithms, compilers, runtimes, and processors work effectively together under performance, energy, memory, or cost constraints

   • Hardware-software co-design paired a lower-precision inference format with processor instructions and kernels that could execute it efficiently.
   • The engineers used hardware-software co-design to balance memory bandwidth against the needs of the target models.