公开(公告)号：US12131251B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-29

申请号：US16358278

申请日：2019-03-19

Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.

Inventor： Anthony Magrath ,  John Paul Lesso

IPC: G06N3/04 ,  G06F17/16 ,  G06N3/065

CPC classification number: G06N3/065 ,  G06F17/16 ,  G06N3/04

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a neuron for an artificial neural network, the neuron comprising: a first dot product engine and a second dot product engine. The first dot product engine is operative to: receive a first set of weights; receive a set of inputs; and calculate the dot product of the set of inputs and the first set of weights to generate a first dot product engine output. The second dot product engine is operative to: receive a second set of weights; receive the set of inputs; and calculate the dot product of the set of inputs and the second set of weights to generate a second dot product engine output. The neuron further comprises a combiner operative to combine the first dot product engine output and the second dot product engine output to generate a combined output, and an activation function module arranged to apply an activation function to the combined output to generate a neuron output.