Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamic variable bit width neural processor
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Application No.: US18114169Application Date: 2023-02-24
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Publication No.: US12050987B2Publication Date: 2024-07-30
- Inventor: Paolo Di Febbo , Waleed Abdulla , Chaminda N Vidanagamachchi , Yohan Rajan
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: APPLE INC.
- Current Assignee: APPLE INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
- Main IPC: G06N3/063
- IPC: G06N3/063 ; G06N3/04 ; G06N3/08

Abstract:
Embodiments relate to an electronic device that includes a neural processor having multiple neural engine circuits that operate in multiple modes of different bit width. A neural engine circuit may include a first multiply circuit and a second multiply circuit. The first and second multiply circuits may be combined to work as a part of a combined computation circuit. In a first mode, the first multiply circuit generates first output data of a first bit width by multiplying first input data with a first kernel coefficient. The second multiply circuit generates second output data of the first bit width by multiplying second input data with a second kernel coefficient. In a second mode, the combined computation circuit generates third output data of a second bit width by multiplying third input data with a third kernel coefficient.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230206050A1 DYNAMIC VARIABLE BIT WIDTH NEURAL PROCESSOR Public/Granted day:2023-06-29
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