Invention Publication
- Patent Title: ITERATION ENGINE FOR THE COMPUTATION OF LARGE KERNELS IN CONVOLUTIONAL ACCELERATORS
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Application No.: US17859769Application Date: 2022-07-07
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Publication No.: US20240012871A1Publication Date: 2024-01-11
- Inventor: Antonio DE VITA , Thomas BOESCH , Giuseppe DESOLI
- Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. , STMicroelectronics International N.V.
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- 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
- Main IPC: G06F17/15
- IPC: G06F17/15 ; G06F7/544

Abstract:
A convolutional accelerator includes a feature line buffer, a kernel buffer, a multiply-accumulate cluster, and iteration control circuitry. The convolutional accelerator, in operation, convolves a kernel with a streaming feature data tensor. The convolving includes decomposing the kernel into a plurality of sub-kernels and iteratively convolving the sub-kernels with respective sub-tensors of the streamed feature data tensor. The iteration control circuitry, in operation, defines respective windows of the streamed feature data tensors, the windows corresponding to the sub-tensors.
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