AI Factory Glossary

router z-loss, llm architecture

Router z-loss stabilizes expert routing preventing domination.

router z-loss,moe

Regularization for stable expert routing.

routing transformer, transformer

Route tokens to reduce attention cost.

royalty payment, business & strategy

Royalty payments compensate IP owners based on volume of chips manufactured.

royalty,business

Ongoing payment based on chip sales using licensed IP.

rpa,robotic,automation

RPA with AI. Intelligent automation. UIPath, Automation Anywhere.

rpn, rpn, manufacturing operations

Risk Priority Number multiplies severity occurrence and detection ranking failure modes.

rrelu, neural architecture

Random negative slope during training.

rta (rapid thermal anneal),rta,rapid thermal anneal,implant

rtd, rtd, manufacturing equipment

Resistance Temperature Detectors measure temperature through resistance changes in metals.

rte, rte, evaluation

Textual entailment challenge.

rtl (register transfer level),rtl,register transfer level,design

Hardware description at level of registers and logic.

rtl,verilog,vhdl

RTL (Register Transfer Level) describes hardware logic. Verilog and VHDL are HDL languages. Synthesized to gates.

rtl,verilog,vhdl,logic

I can explain RTL concepts, basic Verilog/VHDL patterns, and how they map to hardware structures like registers and state machines.

rtp (rapid thermal processing),rtp,rapid thermal processing,diffusion

Fast heating for short high-temperature treatments.

ruff,lint,fast

Ruff is fast Python linter. Replaces flake8, isort.

rule extraction from neural networks, explainable ai

Derive interpretable rules from trained models.

rule-based filtering, data quality

Apply hand-crafted rules.

run chart, quality & reliability

Run charts plot measurements over time revealing trends and patterns.

run rules, spc

Patterns indicating process changes.

run-around loop, environmental & sustainability

Run-around loops circulate fluid between exhaust and supply coils transferring thermal energy.

run-to-failure, production

Operate until breakdown.

run-to-run control, manufacturing operations

Run-to-run control adjusts process parameters based on previous lot results.

run-to-run control, r2r, process control

Adjust recipe between wafer lots.

runner system, packaging

Channels feeding compound.

runner waste, packaging

Compound in runners.

runpod,gpu cloud,inference

RunPod provides GPU instances for ML. Spot and on-demand. Inference endpoints.

ruptures library, time series models

Ruptures provides algorithms for offline change point detection including binary segmentation and dynamic programming.

ruthenium contact, process integration

Ruthenium contacts offer excellent scaling properties with low resistivity and good electromigration resistance.

ruthenium interconnect,beol

Emerging metal for advanced nodes with better performance than Cu at small dimensions.

rutherford backscattering spectrometry (rbs),rutherford backscattering spectrometry,rbs,metrology

Elemental depth profiling.

rvae, rvae, time series models

Recurrent Variational Autoencoder models sequences through hierarchical latent variables with temporal structure.

rwkv for vision, rwkv, computer vision

RNN-like architecture for images.

rwkv, rwkv, llm architecture

Receptance Weighted Key Value combines RNN efficiency with transformer expressiveness.

rwkv,foundation model

RNN-like architecture competitive with Transformers.

rx equalization, signal & power integrity

Receiver equalization compensates for channel loss at receiver through active or passive filtering.