Engineering Optimal Performance
Mastering Software Analysis and Optimization
Perfalign: Unlock the True Performance of AI Models
Accelerate AI software development & performance analysis with one unified toolkit.
Perfalign is an interactive performance analysis toolkit that delivers actionable insights, empowering developers to visualize, analyze, validate, and optimize their models in one place.
What You Can Do with Perfalign
- Performance Estimation
- Interactive Visualization
- Detailed Model Analysis
- Functional Validation & output comparison
- Profiling, Bottleneck identification & performance Analysis
Debugging Large Model Inefficiencies
- Visualize complex models (e.g., Transformers, LLMs) to understand node connectivity and dataflow.
- Identify layers consuming disproportionate compute or memory.
- Performance Estimation
- Interactive Visualization
- Detailed Model Analysis
- Functional Validation & output comparison
- Profiling, Bottleneck identification & performance Analysis
Estimating Model Behavior on New Hardware
- Predict execution time, memory footprint, and bandwidth for a model on an NPU or DSP before deployment.
- Compare trade-offs between CPU and accelerator workloads for early decision-making.
- Performance Estimation
- Interactive Visualization
- Detailed Model Analysis
- Functional Validation & output comparison
- Profiling, Bottleneck identification & performance Analysis
Validating Model Outputs Across Backends
- Run inference on different backends (e.g., ARM CPU vs GPU) and compare results to a golden reference.
- Detect precision shifts or accuracy drops during quantization or hardware migration.
- Performance Estimation
- Interactive Visualization
- Detailed Model Analysis
- Functional Validation & output comparison
- Profiling, Bottleneck identification & performance Analysis
Supporting Pre-Silicon Architecture Exploration
- Feed representative workloads into Perfalign to estimate utilization of compute, memory, and interconnect.
- Use insights to adjust design parameters
Core Features
Interactive Visualizer: See your models like never before
- Intuitive, interactive views of even the most complex models (LLMs, transformers)
- Visualize node connectivity, dataflow, and dependencies at a glance
- Works seamlessly across frameworks: TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX
Model Analyzer: Deep insights at every layer
- Detailed layer-by-layer compute & memory breakdowns
- Estimates for execution time, memory footprint, bandwidth usage
- Pinpoint optimization opportunities instantly
Functional Validator: Accuracy you can trust
- Compare outputs against a reference baseline or across hardware backends
- Spot mismatches, precision shifts, and accuracy issues
- Configurable alerts for rapid debugging
Profiler & Performance Analyzer: Know where your model really runs
- Profile and track hotspots, bottlenecks, and resource utilization
- Built and customizable for any hardware platform (CPU, GPU, NPU, DSP)
Perfalign Insight Assistant (In Development): Your Gen AI powered Co-Pilot
- Automated summaries of models at both model and layer level
- Hotspot detection & insights from validator results
- Actionable suggestions for optimization strategies
What’s Next?
Performance Estimator (Coming Soon)
- Configurable module to estimate model performance across hardware classes (CPU, NPU, DSP) new architecture NPUs
- Adjust parameters: compute, memory, bandwidth
- Valuable for IP/SoC companies in pre-silicon stage to guide architecture design
Profiling & Performance Analysis of Heterogeneous Computing Platforms and SoCs (In Progress)
- Multi-IP component profiling (CPU, NPU, Memory, accelerators)
- End-to-end SoC view with inter-IP communication and dataflow analysis
- Customizable per platform and use case
Why Perfalign?
AI model development is complex, slow, and fragmented. Perfalign changes that:
Cut development cycles by 20–30%
Simplify workflows and eliminate tool-hopping. Perfalign accelerates development by bringing all analysis steps into one unified environment.
Extract maximum performance from models and hardware
Identify compute and memory bottlenecks instantly. Optimize models to fully utilize your hardware’s potential.
Achieve faster time-to-market with confidence
Validate and optimize early in the development cycle. Deliver models & hardware platforms that are both high-performing and deployment-ready.
Unify all essential tools (visualization, validation, profiling, estimation) in one platform
Visualization, validation, profiling, and estimation—everything you need in one place. Perfalign makes AI performance engineering seamless.
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Perfalign helps you optimize smarter, develop faster, and achieve more.
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