Multiply-Accumulate (MAC)

Resources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiply%E2%80%93accumulate_operation

First introduced in ECE222. Properly saw at Tesla working on Dojo.

Multiply and Accumulate (MAC): This operation performs:

$accumulator=accumulator+(a\times b)$ Under the hood, this calls Fused Multiply-Add with the accumulator.

When performed with a single rounding, it is called a fused multiply–add (FMA) or fused multiply–accumulate (FMAC).

Related

• Fused Multiply-Add