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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2015
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Douglas C. Burger, Bellevue, WA (US);
Derek Chiou, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric Chung, Woodinville, WA (US);
Andrew R. Putnam, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G06F 15/78 (2006.01); G06N 3/08 (2006.01); G06N 3/063 (2006.01); G06N 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/084 (2013.01); G06F 15/7803 (2013.01); G06N 3/063 (2013.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06F 15/7821 (2013.01); G06N 5/025 (2013.01); Y02D 10/12 (2018.01); Y02D 10/13 (2018.01);
Abstract
A method is provided for processing on an acceleration component a deep neural network. The method includes configuring the acceleration component to perform forward propagation and backpropagation stages of the deep neural network. The acceleration component includes an acceleration component die and a memory stack disposed in an integrated circuit package. The memory stack has a memory bandwidth greater than about 50 GB/sec and a power efficiency of greater than about 20 MB/sec/mW.