Abstract:
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for configuration of adaptive integrated circuitry, to provide one or more operating modes or other functionality in a communication device, such as a cellular telephone, a GSM telephone, another type of mobile telephone or mobile station, or any other type of media communication device, including video, voice or radio, or other forms of multimedia. The adaptive integrated circuitry is configured and reconfigured for multiple tasks, such as channel acquisition, voice transmission, or multimedia and other data processing. In the preferred embodiment, the configuration and reconfiguration occurs to adaptively optimize the performance of the particular activity over time, such as to increase the speed of channel acquisition, increase throughput rates, increase perceived voice and media quality, and decrease the rate of dropped communication sessions.
Abstract:
A computing machine capable of performing multiple operations using a universal computing unit is provided. The universal computing unit maps an input signal to an output signal. The mapping is initiated using an instruction that includes the input signal, a weight matrix, and an activation function. Using the instruction, the universal computing unit may perform multiple operations using the same hardware configuration. The computation that is performed by the universal computing unit is determined by the weight matrix and activation function used. Accordingly, the universal computing unit does not require any programming to perform a type of computing operation because the type of operation is determined by the parameters of the instruction, specifically, the weight matrix and the activation function.