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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2017
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Himanshu Kaul, Portland, OR (US);
Mark A. Anders, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Sanu K. Mathew, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Anbang Yao, Beijing, CN;
Joydeep Ray, Folsom, CA (US);
Ping T. Tang, Edison, NJ (US);
Michael S. Strickland, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xiaoming Chen, Shanghai, CN;
Tatiana Shpeisman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abhishek R. Appu, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Altug Koker, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Kamal Sinha, Rancho Cordova, CA (US);
Balaji Vembu, Folsom, CA (US);
Nicolas C. Galoppo Von Borries, Portland, OR (US);
Eriko Nurvitadhi, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Rajkishore Barik, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Tsung-Han Lin, Campbell, CA (US);
Vasanth Ranganathan, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Sanjeev Jahagirdar, Folsom, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment provides for a machine-learning hardware accelerator comprising a compute unit having an adder and a multiplier that are shared between integer data path and a floating-point datapath, the upper bits of input operands to the multiplier to be gated during floating-point operation.