Invention Application
- Patent Title: Configurable Convolution Engine
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Application No.: US15823292Application Date: 2017-11-27
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Publication No.: US20180082400A1Publication Date: 2018-03-22
- Inventor: Suk Hwan Lim , Junji Sugisawa , Muge Wang
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Main IPC: G06T1/20
- IPC: G06T1/20 ; G06F17/15

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a configurable convolution engine that receives configuration information to perform convolution or its variant operations on streaming input data of various formats. To process streaming input data, input data of multiple channels are received and stored in an input buffer circuit in an interleaved manner. Data values of the interleaved input data are retrieved and forwarded to multiplier circuits where multiplication with a corresponding filter element of a kernel is performed. Varying number of kernels with different sizes and sparsity can also be used for the convolution operations.
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