Building a FlashAttention Hardware Tile with Verilator: Exploring ML Accelerator Microarchitectures

Nov 9, 2025 · 5 min read · Transformers have become the backbone of modern AI models, powering everything from GPT-5 to Gemini and DeepSeek. But at the hardware level, their attention layers are still a challenge — dense, memory-bound, and hard to accelerate efficiently. In th...