Digital pathology promises to revolutionize medicine by transforming tissue samples into high-resolution images that can be shared and analyzed using powerful new computational tools to assist with clinical decision-making and personalize patient care. But there are challenges to be overcome to achieve this bold new vision for medicine. In a…
This paper attempts to address and reconcile two different issues: the existence of multiple numerical data formats (such as int8, bfloat16, fp8, etc., often non optimal for the application and not directly compatible with one another) and the necessity to reduce their bandwidth requirements, especially in the case of power hungry and slow DRAM.