TQUANT¶

Tile Operation Diagram¶

TQUANT tile operation

Introduction¶

Quantize an FP32 tile into a lower-precision format (e.g. FP8), producing auxiliary exponent/scaling/max tiles. The quantization mode is a compile-time template parameter (mode).

C++ Intrinsic¶

Declared in include/pto/common/pto_instr.hpp:

PTO_INST RecordEvent TQUANT(TileDataSrc &src, TileDataExp &exp, TileDataOut &dst,
                            TileDataMax &max, TileDataSrc &scaling, WaitEvents&... events);

Constraints¶

This instruction is currently implemented for specific targets (see include/pto/npu/*/TQuant.hpp).
Input type requirements and output tile types are mode/target-dependent.

Math Interpretation¶

Unless otherwise specified, semantics are defined over the valid region and target-dependent behavior is marked as implementation-defined.

Assembly Syntax¶

PTO-AS form: see PTO-AS Specification.

IR Level 1 (SSA)¶

%dst = pto.tquant %src, %qp : (!pto.tile<...>, !pto.tile<...>) -> !pto.tile<...>

IR Level 2 (DPS)¶

pto.tquant ins(%src, %qp : !pto.tile_buf<...>, !pto.tile_buf<...>) outs(%dst : !pto.tile_buf<...>)

Examples¶

See related examples in docs/isa/ and docs/coding/tutorials/.

ASM Form Examples¶

Auto Mode¶

# Auto mode: compiler/runtime-managed placement and scheduling.
%dst = pto.tquant %src, %qp : (!pto.tile<...>, !pto.tile<...>) -> !pto.tile<...>

Manual Mode¶

# Manual mode: bind resources explicitly before issuing the instruction.
# Optional for tile operands:
# pto.tassign %arg0, @tile(0x1000)
# pto.tassign %arg1, @tile(0x2000)
%dst = pto.tquant %src, %qp : (!pto.tile<...>, !pto.tile<...>) -> !pto.tile<...>

PTO Assembly Form¶

%dst = pto.tquant %src, %qp : (!pto.tile<...>, !pto.tile<...>) -> !pto.tile<...>
# IR Level 2 (DPS)
pto.tquant ins(%src, %qp : !pto.tile_buf<...>, !pto.tile_buf<...>) outs(%dst : !pto.tile_buf<...>)