Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Tsinghua University

Youhui Zhang

Yun Chen

Yu Ji

Kunpeng Song

Xiaosong Cui

Siyu Lu

A hardware neural network conversion method, a computing device, a compiling method and a neural network software and hardware collaboration system for converting a neural network application into a hardware neural network fulfilling a hardware constraint condition are disclosed. The method comprises: obtaining a neural network connection diagram corresponding to the neural network application; splitting the neural network connection diagram into neural network basic units; converting each of the neural network basic units so as to form a network having equivalent functions thereto and formed by connecting basic module virtual entities of neural network hardware; and connecting the obtained basic unit hardware network according to the sequence of splitting so as to create a parameter file for the hardware neural network. The present disclosure provides a novel neural network and a brain-like computing software and hardware system.

Hardware neural network conversion method, computing device, compiling method and neural network software and hardware collaboration system

A network-on-chip flit transmission method and a network-on-chip flit transmission apparatus. The method includes: receiving a current flit including an operation ID Op ID, an operation type Op Type, and a payload; when determining that acceleration processing needs to be performed on the current flit, determining, according to the Op Type, whether the payload of the current flit affects an execution result of a destination node of the current flit, where the execution result is a result obtained by executing, by the destination node, a task corresponding to the Op ID; and forwarding the current flit to a next node if a determining result is yes; and discarding the current flit if a determining result is no. Therefore, not only a quantity of flits that need to be transmitted on a network-on-chip can be greatly reduced, but also a calculation amount of the destination node can be reduced.

Network-on-chip flit transmission method and apparatus

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Youhui Zhang