Apparatus and method for coherent, accelerated conversion between data representations

    公开(公告)号:US10761757B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-01

    申请号:US16024812

    申请日:2018-06-30

    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.

    System to perform unary functions using range-specific coefficient sets

    公开(公告)号:US11520562B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-06

    申请号:US16557959

    申请日:2019-08-30

    Abstract: A method comprising storing a plurality of entries, each entry of the plurality of entries associated with a portion of a range of input values, each entry of the plurality of entries comprising a set of coefficients defining a power series approximation; selecting first entry of the plurality of entries based on a determination that a floating point input value is within a portion of the range of input values that is associated with the first entry; and calculating an output value by evaluating the power series approximation defined by the set of coefficients of the first entry at the floating point input value.

    SYSTEM TO PERFORM UNARY FUNCTIONS USING RANGE-SPECIFIC COEFFICIENT SETS

    公开(公告)号:US20190384575A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-19

    申请号:US16557959

    申请日:2019-08-30

    Abstract: A method comprising storing a plurality of entries, each entry of the plurality of entries associated with a portion of a range of input values, each entry of the plurality of entries comprising a set of coefficients defining a power series approximation; selecting first entry of the plurality of entries based on a determination that a floating point input value is within a portion of the range of input values that is associated with the first entry; and calculating an output value by evaluating the power series approximation defined by the set of coefficients of the first entry at the floating point input value.

    Apparatuses and methods to accelerate matrix multiplication

    公开(公告)号:US12254061B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-18

    申请号:US17256195

    申请日:2018-09-27

    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses relating to performing vector multiplication are described. Hardware accelerators to perform vector multiplication are also described. In one embodiment, a combined fixed-point and floating-point vector multiplication circuit includes at least one switch to change the circuit between a first mode and a second mode, where in the first mode, each multiplier of a set of multipliers is to multiply mantissas from a same element position of a first floating-point vector and a second floating-point vector to produce a corresponding product, shift the corresponding products with a set of shift registers based on a maximum exponent of exponents for the corresponding products determined by a maximum exponent determiner to produce shifted products, perform an numeric conversion operation on the shifted products with a set of numeric conversion circuits based on sign bits from the same element position of the first floating-point vector and the second floating-point vector to produce signed representations of the shifted products, add the signed representations of the shifted products with a set of adders to produce a single product, and normalize the single product with a normalization circuit based on the maximum exponent into a single floating-point resultant, and in the second mode, each multiplier of the set of multipliers is to multiply values from a same element position of a first integer vector and a second integer vector to produce a corresponding product, and add each corresponding product with the set of adders to produce a single integer resultant.

    Decomposed floating point multiplication

    公开(公告)号:US11169776B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-09

    申请号:US16457318

    申请日:2019-06-28

    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that in response to an identification that one or more hardware units are to execute on a first type of data format, decomposes a first original floating point number to a plurality of first segmented floating point numbers that are to be equivalent to the first original floating point number. The technology may further in response to the identification, decompose a second original floating point number to a plurality of second segmented floating point numbers that are to be equivalent to the second original floating point number. The technology may further execute a multiplication operation on the first and second segmented floating point numbers to multiply the first segmented floating point numbers with the second segmented floating point numbers.

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