ASIC and Tokenizer Hardware
A feasibility study on compiling LLM tokenizers into streaming circuits that match the software exactly. We measure cost before any silicon, and chip design notes run alongside the study.
16,843,008 strings enumerated per encoding
- Status
- Research, software baselines
- Access
- In house
ASIC and Tokenizer Hardware capabilities
- The reference definition fixes the exact function over Unicode and raw bytes.
- We enumerate every byte string up to length 3.
- The multi category test corpus includes pathological input.
- We benchmark existing tokenizers in a harness and compare their output token by token.
- Our research notes cover the chip design flow from specification to tapeout.