Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for supporting alternate number format for efficient multiplication
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Application No.: US16511085Application Date: 2019-07-15
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Publication No.: US10977002B2Publication Date: 2021-04-13
- Inventor: Ganesh Venkatesh , Liangzhen Lai , Pierce I-Jen Chuang , Meng Li , Vikas Chandra
- Applicant: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Main IPC: G06F7/523
- IPC: G06F7/523 ; G06F5/01 ; G06F7/533 ; G06F7/544 ; G06F7/57

Abstract:
Disclosed herein includes a system, a method, and a device including shift circuitry and add circuitry for performing multiplication of a first value and a second value for a neural network. The first value has a predetermined format including a first bit, and two or more second bits to represent a value of zero or 2n where n is an integer greater than or equal to 0. The device shifts, when the two or more second bits represent the value of 2n, the second value by (n+1) bits via the shift circuitry to provide a first result, selectively outputs zero or the second value, based on a value of the first bit of the first value, to provide a second result, and adds the first result and the second results via the add circuitry to provide a result of the multiplication of the first and second values.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210019115A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING ALTERNATE NUMBER FORMAT FOR EFFICIENT MULTIPLICATION Public/Granted day:2021-01-21
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