Sparsity-aware hardware accelerators

AU Diril, JS Park, N Rotem, M Smelyanskiy - US Patent 10,482,156, 2019 - Google Patents
A special-purpose, hardware-based accelerator may include an input subsystem configured
to receive first and second vectors as operands of a full dot-product operation. The …

Neural network architecture using convolution engine filter weight buffers

C Martin - US Patent 11,182,668, 2021 - Google Patents
Hardware for implementing a Deep Neural Network (DNN) having a convolution layer, the
hardware comprising a plurality of convolution engines each configured to perform …

Implementation of MobileNet in a CNN based digital integrated circuit

L Yang, PZ Dong, JZ Dong, B Sun - US Patent 10,360,470, 2019 - Google Patents
Method and systems of replacing operations of depthwise separable filters with first and
second replacement convolutional layers are disclosed. Depthwise separable filters …

Array-based inference engine for machine learning

A Sodani, U Hanebutte, S Durakovic… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
An array-based inference engine includes a plurality of processing tiles arranged in a two-
dimensional array of a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. Each processing tile …

Dataflow accelerator architecture for general matrix-matrix multiplication and tensor computation in deep learning

P Gu, K Malladi, H Zheng, D Niu - US Patent 11,100,193, 2021 - Google Patents
A general matrix-matrix multiplication (GEMM) dataflow accelerator circuit is disclosed that
includes a smart 3D stacking DRAM architecture. The accelerator circuit includes a memory …

Architecture for dense operations in machine learning inference engine

A Sodani, U Hanebutte, S Durakovic… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A processing unit of an inference engine for machine learning (ML)
includes a first, a second, and a third register, and a matrix multiplication block. The first …

Networked motion control

KA Hay, AH Henning - US Patent App. 16/453,317, 2020 - Google Patents
The presently disclosed technology relates to networked control of machine tools. An
example system can use messages as means for transmitting intention and status in a …

Systems and methods for assigning tasks in a neural network processor

L Fishel, EK Norden - US Patent App. 15/971,872, 2019 - Google Patents
Embodiments relate to managing tasks that when executed by a neural processor circuit
instantiates a neural network. The neural processor circuit includes neural engine circuits …

Combined world-space pipeline shader stages

MP Nijasure, RW Ramsey, T Martin - US Patent 10,460,513, 2019 - Google Patents
Improvements to graphics processing pipelines are disclosed. More specifically, the vertex
shader stage, which performs vertex transformations, and the hull or geometry shader …

Dataflow all-reduce for reconfigurable processor systems

MR Raumann, Q Zheng, BB Shah, R Kumar… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
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