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SigmanticAI/apex-inference-chip

An inference chip design that runs a real LLM (Qwen2.5-0.5B) on FPGA — one transformer decoder layer in RTL, every silicon value bit-exact against a golden model. 0.56 tok/s measured, a 140× climb, full evidence trail.

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  1. Aug 201 post
    • KV cache不该只当软件问题,塞进硬件数据通路才治本。项目用FPGA跑Qwen2.5-0.5B,decoder层全RTL,逐位对齐golden。 压缩在RoPE后入缓存,读取时再解压,没有fp16副本;INT8阵列复用跑七个矩阵,layer walker让硬件自取描述符省掉host往返。验证用mutation门控测试台,数字机器抽取,FPGA与仿真逐位一致。实测0.56…

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