Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Yield improvements for three-dimensionally stacked neural network accelerators
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Application No.: US15685672Application Date: 2017-08-24
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Publication No.: US10963780B2Publication Date: 2021-03-30
- Inventor: Andreas Georg Nowatzyk , Olivier Temam
- Applicant: Google LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: G06N3/04
- IPC: G06N3/04 ; G06N3/063 ; G06F11/20 ; G06F11/14 ; H04L12/721 ; H04L12/703 ; H02J50/10 ; H04L12/42

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for three-dimensionally stacked neural network accelerators. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining data specifying that a tile from a plurality of tiles in a three-dimensionally stacked neural network accelerator is a faulty tile. The three-dimensionally stacked neural network accelerator includes a plurality of neural network dies, each neural network die including a respective plurality of tiles, each tile has input and output connections. The three-dimensionally stacked neural network accelerator is configured to process inputs by routing the input through each of the plurality of tiles according to a dataflow configuration and modifying the dataflow configuration to route an output of a tile before the faulty tile in the dataflow configuration to an input connection of a tile that is positioned above or below the faulty tile on a different neural network die than the faulty tile.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190065937A1 YIELD IMPROVEMENTS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONALLY STACKED NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATORS Public/Granted day:2019-02-28
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