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An attempt to understand and build a TPU—by complete novices.

Tiny TPU tinytpu.com Tiny-TPU: the why and how Aug 17th 2025 · Xander Chin, Kenny Guo, Evan Lin, Surya Sure Github Twitter Google Drive Nobody really understands how TPUs work…and neither do we! So we wanted to make this because we wanted to take a shot and try to guess how it works–from the perspective of complete novices! This slideshow depicts the forward pass and backward pass on our toy accelerator. clk 0 Why did we start this project? We wanted to do something very challenging to prove to ourselves that we can do anything we put our mind to. The reasoning for why we chose to build a TPU

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