What is systems' thinking?

system

A collection of components, which individually do a small task, interact with each other and achieve a bigger task.

A system is a set of interconnected components that has an expected behavior observed at the interface with its environment.

Common challenges in a system

Emergent Properties

- NASA Mars Orbiter English-Metric ambiguity

Propagation of errors

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Processing Element (PE)

• Also called Multiply-and-ACcumulate (MAC) unit
• Smallest unit of computation on hardware
• Single cycle operation: read weight, input, compute output and store.

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Common challenges in a system

1. Emergent properties: Individual components work good, but fails when put together with others.
2. Propagation of errors: Error in one component triggers an error in another component and this propagates.
3. Incommensurate scaling: Scaling one component of the system does not scale the entire system, might break down.
4. Trade-offs: Achieve something at the cost of another.

A complex system

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