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- Patent Title: Hardware implementation of convolutional layer of deep neural network
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Application No.: US17510633Application Date: 2021-10-26
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Publication No.: US11868426B2Publication Date: 2024-01-09
- Inventor: Chris Martin , David Hough , Clifford Gibson , Daniel Barnard
- Applicant: Imagination Technologies Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Kings Langley
- Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
- Current Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Kings Langley
- Agency: Potomac Law Group, PLLC
- Agent Vincent M DeLuca
- Priority: GB 18297 2017.11.03
- Main IPC: G06F17/15
- IPC: G06F17/15 ; G06N3/063 ; G06F7/544 ; G06N3/04 ; G06N3/045

Abstract:
Hardware implementations of, and methods for processing, a convolution layer of a DNN that comprise a plurality of convolution engines wherein the input data and weights are provided to the convolution engines in an order that allows input data and weights read from memory to be used in at least two filter-window calculations performed either by the same convolution engine in successive cycles or by different convolution engines in the same cycle. For example, in some hardware implementations of a convolution layer the convolution engines are configured to process the same weights but different input data each cycle, but the input data for each convolution engine remains the same for at least two cycles so that the convolution engines use the same input data in at least two consecutive cycles.
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