- Patent Title: Temperature-based adjustments for in-memory matrix multiplication
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Application No.: US16428903Application Date: 2019-05-31
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Publication No.: US11507641B2Publication Date: 2022-11-22
- Inventor: Majed Valad Beigi , Amin Farmahini-Farahani , Sudhanva Gurumurthi
- Applicant: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Volpe Koenig
- Main IPC: G06F17/16
- IPC: G06F17/16 ; G01K3/14 ; G01K3/10

Abstract:
Techniques for performing in-memory matrix multiplication, taking into account temperature variations in the memory, are disclosed. In one example, the matrix multiplication memory uses ohmic multiplication and current summing to perform the dot products involved in matrix multiplication. One downside to this analog form of multiplication is that temperature affects the accuracy of the results. Thus techniques are provided herein to compensate for the effects of temperature increases on the accuracy of in-memory matrix multiplications. According to the techniques, portions of input matrices are classified as effective or ineffective. Effective portions are mapped to low temperature regions of the in-memory matrix multiplier and ineffective portions are mapped to high temperature regions of the in-memory matrix multiplier. The matrix multiplication is then performed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200380063A1 TEMPERATURE-BASED ADJUSTMENTS FOR IN-MEMORY MATRIX MULTIPLICATION Public/Granted day:2020-12-03
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