Arithmetic apparatus, operating method thereof, and neural network processor

    公开(公告)号:US12175208B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-24

    申请号:US16989391

    申请日:2020-08-10

    Abstract: An arithmetic apparatus includes a first operand holding circuit configured to output a first operand according to a clock signal, generate an indicator signal based on bit values of high-order bit data including a most significant bit of the first operand, and gate the clock signal based on the indicator signal, the clock signal being applied to a flip-flop latching the high-order bit data of the first operand; a second operand holding circuit configured to output a second operand according to the clock signal; and an arithmetic circuit configured to perform data gating on the high-order bit data of the first operand based on the indicator signal and output an operation result by performing an operation using a modified first operand resulting from the data gating and the second operand.

    Apparatus and method for processing convolution operation of neural network

    公开(公告)号:US12271809B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-08

    申请号:US17848007

    申请日:2022-06-23

    Abstract: A neural network apparatus includes a plurality of node buffers connected to a node lane and configured to store input node data by a predetermined bit size; a plurality of weight buffers connected to a weight lane and configured to store weights; and one or more processors configured to: generate first and second split data by splitting the input node data by the predetermined bit size, store the first and second split data in the node buffers, output the first split data to an operation circuit for a neural network operation on an index-by-index basis, shift the second split data, and output the second split data to the operation circuit on the index-by-index basis.

    Method and system of performing convolution in neural networks with variable dilation rate

    公开(公告)号:US11423251B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-23

    申请号:US16733314

    申请日:2020-01-03

    Abstract: A method of performing convolution in a neural network with variable dilation rate is provided. The method includes receiving a size of a first kernel and a dilation rate, determining at least one of size of one or more disintegrated kernels based on the size of the first kernel, a baseline architecture of a memory and the dilation rate, determining an address of one or more blocks of an input image based on the dilation rate, and one or more parameters associated with a size of the input image and the memory. Thereafter, the one or more blocks of the input image and the one or more disintegrated kernels are fetched from the memory, and an output image is obtained based on convolution of each of the one or more disintegrated kernels and the one or more blocks of the input image.

    Method and apparatus with neural network performing deconvolution

    公开(公告)号:US10885433B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-05

    申请号:US16107717

    申请日:2018-08-21

    Abstract: A neural network apparatus configured to perform a deconvolution operation includes a memory configured to store a first kernel; and a processor configured to: obtain, from the memory, the first kernel; calculate a second kernel by adjusting an arrangement of matrix elements comprised in the first kernel; generate sub-kernels by dividing the second kernel; perform a convolution operation between an input feature map and the sub-kernels using a convolution operator; and generate an output feature map, as a deconvolution of the input feature map, by merging results of the convolution operation.

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