Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Compute in/near memory (CIM) circuit architecture for unified matrix-matrix and matrix-vector computations
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Application No.: US16586648Application Date: 2019-09-27
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Publication No.: US11347477B2Publication Date: 2022-05-31
- Inventor: Huseyin Ekin Sumbul , Gregory K. Chen , Phil Knag , Raghavan Kumar , Ram Krishnamurthy
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Compass IP Law PC
- Main IPC: G06F7/544
- IPC: G06F7/544 ; G06F17/16 ; G06F7/498 ; G06F12/02 ; G06F9/30

Abstract:
A memory circuit includes a number (X) of multiply-accumulate (MAC) circuits that are dynamically configurable. The MAC circuits can either compute an output based on computations of X elements of the input vector with the weight vector, or to compute the output based on computations of a single element of the input vector with the weight vector, with each element having a one bit or multibit length. A first memory can hold the input vector having a width of X elements and a second memory can store the weight vector. The MAC circuits include a MAC array on chip with the first memory.
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