Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Processing apparatus and processing method with dynamically configurable operation bit width
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Application No.: US16476262Application Date: 2018-04-17
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Publication No.: US11531540B2Publication Date: 2022-12-20
- Inventor: Tianshi Chen , Jie Wei , Tian Zhi , Zai Wang , Shaoli Liu , Yuzhe Luo , Qi Guo , Wei Li , Shengyuan Zhou , Zidong Du
- Applicant: Cambricon (Xi'an) Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: CN Xi'an
- Assignee: Cambricon (Xi'an) Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Cambricon (Xi'an) Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: CN Xi'an
- Agency: Getech Law LLC
- Agent Jun Ye
- Priority: CN201710256445.X 20170419,CN201710264686.9 20170421,CN201710269049.0 20170421,CN201710269106.5 20170421
- International Application: PCT/CN2018/083415 WO 20180417
- International Announcement: WO2018/192500 WO 20181025
- Main IPC: G06F7/46
- IPC: G06F7/46 ; G06N3/04 ; G06N3/08 ; G06F9/30

Abstract:
A processing device with dynamically configurable operation bit width, characterized by comprising: a memory for storing data, the data comprising data to be operated, intermediate operation result, final operation result, and data to be buffered in a neural network; a data width adjustment circuit for adjusting the width of the data to be operated, the intermediate operation result, the final operation result, and/or the data to be buffered; an operation circuit for operating the data to be operated, including performing operation on data to be operated of different bit widths by using an adder circuit and a multiplier; and a control circuit for controlling the memory, the data width adjustment circuit and the operation circuit. The device of the present disclosure can have the advantages of strong flexibility, high configurability, fast operation speed, low power consumption or the like.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200050918A1 PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD Public/Granted day:2020-02-13
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