Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hardware accelerator method, system and device
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Application No.: US16833340Application Date: 2020-03-27
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Publication No.: US11442700B2Publication Date: 2022-09-13
- Inventor: Michele Rossi , Giuseppe Desoli , Thomas Boesch , Carmine Cappetta
- Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L. , STMicroelectronics International N.V.
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza; CH Geneva
- Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.,STMicroelectronics International N.V.
- Current Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.,STMicroelectronics International N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza; CH Geneva
- Agency: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group LLP
- Main IPC: G06F7/72
- IPC: G06F7/72 ; H03M7/18

Abstract:
A system includes an addressable memory array, one or more processing cores, and an accelerator framework coupled to the addressable memory. The accelerator framework includes a Multiply ACcumulate (MAC) hardware accelerator cluster. The MAC hardware accelerator cluster has a binary-to-residual converter, which, in operation, converts binary inputs to a residual number system. Converting a binary input to the residual number system includes a reduction modulo 2m and a reduction modulo 2m−1, where m is a positive integer. A plurality of MAC hardware accelerators perform modulo 2m multiply-and-accumulate operations and modulo 2m−1 multiply-and-accumulate operations using the converted binary input. A residual-to-binary converter generates a binary output based on the output of the MAC hardware accelerators.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200310761A1 HARDWARE ACCELERATOR METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE Public/Granted day:2020-10-01
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