Advanced Versatile Inference Silicon

ZilionX™ Transformer Engine

Developing an inference accelerator for Transformer workloads on constrained edge systems. The current RTL integrates attention, feed-forward and normalization paths. The Stage 3M memory fabric has been integrated with the Transformer RTL in Stage 3N. Synthesis and implementation analysis are the next validation steps.

Current status · October 2026
Integrated RTL and an eight-layer simulation benchmark are available. Stage 3M memory fabric implementation is complete. Stage 3N memory-fabric RTL integration is complete. The verified eight-layer Stage 3N compute run records 30,945 cycles. Synthesis and measurement of DMA loading and end-to-end latency are next; the earlier results remain available on Benchmarks.

ZilionX development

Two foundations for the next stage

The hardware data path and the software path are advancing together. Each milestone below states what has been built and what is still being evaluated.

RTL integration complete · synthesis next

Memory fabric

The Stage 3M memory fabric is implemented and integrated with the Transformer RTL. The integrated RTL records 30,945 compute cycles in the reported eight-layer test. Synthesis, memory inference and separate DMA loading measurements are next.

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SDK v0.1 · model-package foundation

Developer SDK

The first SDK work defines and validates a ZilionX model package so model data can enter a controlled evaluation flow. Runtime integration, representative model execution and FPGA evaluation are subsequent milestones.

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Engineering focus

Transformer datapath

Fixed-point attention and softmax RTL alongside integrated feed-forward, normalization and residual paths.

Data movement

Stage 3M memory fabric integrated with the Transformer RTL. Synthesis will assess memory inference and resource use; larger stress runs and separate DMA loading measurements are next.

Evaluation path

Cycle-level simulation today; FPGA evaluation and representative model workloads are future milestones.

See the evidence

Architecture overview explains the blocks and intended memory integration. Benchmarks provides the measured cycle counts and test scope. Progress separates completed work from active and planned work.