公开(公告)号：US20190042094A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-07

申请号：US16024812

申请日：2018-06-30

Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION

Inventor： Krishnakumar Nair ,  Andrew Yang ,  Michael Rotzn ,  Nitin Garegrat ,  Tom Schebye ,  Tony Werner

IPC: G06F3/06 ,  G06F9/30

Abstract: An apparatus and method for a converting tensor data. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: fetching source tensor blocks of a source tensor data structure, each source tensor block comprising a plurality of source tensor data elements having a first numeric representation, wherein the source tensor data structure comprises a predefined structural arrangement of source tensor blocks; converting the one or more source tensor blocks into one or more destination tensor blocks comprising a plurality of destination tensor data elements having a second numeric representation different from the first numeric representation, wherein the sets of one or more source tensor blocks are converted to one or more corresponding destination tensor blocks in a specified order based on the first and second numeric representations; and storing each individual destination tensor block in a designated memory region to maintain coherency with the predefined structural arrangement of the source tensor blocks.