Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Semiconductor device
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Application No.: US18186476Application Date: 2023-03-20
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Publication No.: US12135642B2Publication Date: 2024-11-05
- Inventor: Kazuaki Terashima , Atsushi Nakamura , Yonghua Wang
- Applicant: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Rimon P.C.
- Priority: JP2022-081417 20220518
- Main IPC: G06F12/08
- IPC: G06F12/08 ; G06F7/50 ; G06F7/523

Abstract:
A semiconductor device capable of reducing power consumption is provided. A group controller detects a zero weight parameter having a zero value among “n×m” weight parameters to be transferred to a weight parameter buffer. Then, when receiving the zero weight parameter as its input, the group controller exchanges the “n×m” weight parameters to be transferred to the weight parameter buffer so that all multiplication results of the “n” multipliers included in a target multiplier group that is one of the “m” multiplier groups are zero. The group controller controls the target multiplier group to be disabled, and exchanges the “n×m” pixel data to be transferred to the data input buffer, based on the exchange of the “n×m” weight parameters.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230376415A1 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE Public/Granted day:2023-11-23
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