2026-05-13 09:24 UTC
More fun with the Ryzen AI NPU. I'm working on a more complex algorithm, and I'm seeing memory stalls that make me lose one cycle in each iteration. It turns out that the data memory of compute tiles is organized as 8x 256-bit wide 8 KiB memory banks. Each bank supports one simultaneous access, and every two banks are interleaved to form a 512-bit wide 16 KiB virtual bank. The two load units of the processor can perform simultaneous 512-bit loads only if these target different 16 KiB banks.
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