TWO SLICES OF JALAPEÑO
Matched compute slices, placed and routed on Nangate45. Left: eight 32×32 engines. Right: two 64×64. Equal MACs, SRAM, constraints.
measured slices
chip reconstruction
pipelined clock
2.90 / 3.26 ns
area
9.77 / 9.46 Mµm²
power @ 2 ns
2.01 / 2.32 W
cycles at real feed
tie
verdict
physics ≈ neutral · bandwidth decides