| AI Cores / AI compute cores / NSP |
These terms are interchangably used to refer to the Neural Signal Processor cores in the Cloud AI Platforms. The NSP cores run the inference. |
| Instance / activation |
A single Instance or activation refers to a QPC executing on a set of AI cores. |
| QAIC / AIC / Cloud AI/ AIC100 |
These terms are interchangably used to refer to Cloud AI. These terms are typically followed by the subject (like Compiler / SDK / library etc) being discussed. |
| QPC (Qaic Program Container) / model binary / network binary |
Cloud AI platforms can execute a QPC. A pre-trained model needs to be compiled to generate a QPC. QPC / model binary / network binary terms are used interchangably. |
| TCM / VTCM |
(Vector) Tightly-Coupled Memory. On-chip or in-NSP memory as featured in the ARM specification. |
| ECC |
Error Correcting Code. Error correction in the TCM as featuerd in the ARM specification. |
| VM/KVM |
(Kernel-based) Virtual Machine. |
| ONNX |
Open Neural Network Exchange file format. |