Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Shifting input values within input buffer of neural network inference circuit
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Application No.: US16355648Application Date: 2019-03-15
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Publication No.: US11886979B1Publication Date: 2024-01-30
- Inventor: Kenneth Duong , Jung Ko , Steven L. Teig
- Applicant: Perceive Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: PERCEIVE CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: PERCEIVE CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: ADELI LLP
- Main IPC: G06N3/063
- IPC: G06N3/063 ; G06F9/30 ; G06F17/16

Abstract:
Some embodiments provide a method for a neural network inference circuit that executes a neural network. The method loads a first set of inputs into an input buffer and computes a first dot product between the first set of inputs and a set of weights. The method shifts the first set of inputs in the buffer while loading a second set of inputs into the buffer such that a first subset of the first set of inputs is removed from the buffer, a second subset of the first set of inputs is moved to new locations in the buffer, and a second set of inputs are loaded into locations in the buffer vacated by the shifting. The method computes a second dot product between (i) the second set of inputs and the second subset of the first set of inputs and (ii) the set of weights.
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