Hardware accelerator engine
US12073308B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 2, 2017 |
| Grant date | Aug 27, 2024 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 11, 2039 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06N7/01
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Embodiments are directed towards a hardware accelerator engine that supports efficient mapping of convolutional stages of deep neural network algorithms. The hardware accelerator engine includes a plurality of convolution accelerators, and each one of the plurality of convolution accelerators includes a kernel buffer, a feature line buffer, and a plurality of multiply-accumulate (MAC) units. The MAC units are arranged to multiply and accumulate data received from both the kernel buffer and the feature line buffer. The hardware accelerator engine also includes at least one input bus coupled to an output bus port of a stream switch, at least one output bus coupled to an input bus port of the stream switch, or at least one input bus and at least one output bus hard wired to respective output bus and input bus ports of the stream switch.
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