.. _Hardware Supported:

Hardware Supported
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MAESTRO supports a wide range of accelerators that consist of global shared scratchpad (i.e., L2 scratchapd), local PE scratchpad (i.e., L1 scratchpad), NoC, and a PE array organized into an arbitrary level of hierarchies or dimensionalities.


.. image:: images/abstract_hw_model.png

Hardware configuration can be defined using hardware parameters above and cluster directives and their size in mapping descriptions.

- Examples

.. image:: images/example_hw.png

MAESTRO supports any level of hierarchies but only supports uniform clusters (e.g., MAESTRO does not support an accelerator with a 2D PE array that has irregular number of PEs in each row).