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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2016
Via Alliance Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Shanghai, CN;
G. Glenn Henry, Austin, TX (US);
Terry Parks, Austin, TX (US);
VIA ALLIANCE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD., Shanghai, CN;
Abstract
A processor includes a front-end portion that issues instructions to execution units that execute the issued instructions. A hardware neural network unit (NNU) execution unit includes a first memory that holds data words associated with artificial neural networks (ANN) neuron outputs, a second memory that holds weight words associated with connections between ANN neurons, and a third memory that holds a program comprising NNU instructions that are distinct, with respect to their instruction set, from the instructions issued to the NNU by the front-end portion of the processor. The program performs ANN-associated computations on the data and weight words. A first instruction instructs the NNU to transfer NNU instructions of the program from architectural general purpose registers to the third memory. A second instruction instructs the NNU to invoke the program stored in the third memory.