公开(公告)号：US20200097799A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-26

申请号：US16619062

申请日：2017-06-30

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Dilin Divakar ,  Ambili Vengallur ,  Ajit Singh

IPC: G06N3/04 ,  G06N3/063 ,  G06N3/08 ,  G06F7/523

Abstract: Heterogeneous multiplier circuitry is provided with an interface to a configuration register to access configuration information, where the configuration information identifies respective data formats of a first operand and a second operand to be used in a first multiplication operation, where the first operand is in a first data format including a first numerical representation and the second operand is in a different, second data format including a different, second numerical representation. The heterogeneous multiplier circuitry includes an operand modifier to modify the second operand to generate a modified second operand, and further includes a multiplier to perform multiplication of the first operand and the modified second operand to generate a result in the first data format.