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- Patent Title: Memory access optimisation using per-layer computational mapping and memory allocation for CNN application
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Application No.: US16221232Application Date: 2018-12-14
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Publication No.: US10664310B2Publication Date: 2020-05-26
- Inventor: Haseeb Bokhari , Jorgen Peddersen , Sridevan Parameswaran , Iftekhar Ahmed , Yusuke Yachide
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Canon U.S.A., Inc., IP Division
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@67cc797b
- Main IPC: G06F9/48
- IPC: G06F9/48 ; G06F8/41 ; G06N3/02 ; G06F8/35 ; G06F9/50 ; G06F17/50

Abstract:
A method of configuring a System on Chip to execute a CNN process comprising CNN layers, the method comprising, for each schedule: determining memory access amount information describing how many memory accesses are required; expressing the memory access amount information as relationships describing reusability of data; combining the relationships with a cost of writing and reading from external memory, to form memory access information; determining a memory allocation for on-chip memory of the SoC for the input FMs and the output FMs; and determining, dependent upon the memory access information and the memory allocation for each schedule; a schedule which minimises the memory access information of external memory access for the CNN layer of the CNN process; and a memory allocation associated with the determined schedule.
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