Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Accelerator for processing data
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Application No.: US15840552Application Date: 2017-12-13
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Publication No.: US10509846B2Publication Date: 2019-12-17
- Inventor: Chen Koren , Dan Baum
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: G06F17/16
- IPC: G06F17/16 ; G06F7/544 ; G06F7/523 ; G06N3/04 ; G06N3/063 ; G06N3/08 ; G06F9/30 ; G06N3/02

Abstract:
An accelerator for increasing the processing speed of a processor. The accelerator operates in two distinct modes. In a first mode for dense layer processing, row data sets and column data sets are sent to a multiplier for multiplication. In a second mode for sparse layer processing compressed row data sets are received by a row multiplexer and compressed column data sets are received by a column multiplexer. Each multiplexer is configured to compare the indexes of data sets with one another to determine matching indexes. When indexes match, the matching data sets are selected and sent to the multiplier for multiplication. When indexes do not match, data sets are stored in memory devices for subsequent cycles.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190042538A1 ACCELERATOR FOR PROCESSING DATA Public/Granted day:2019-02-07
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