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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2018
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Himanshu Kaul, Portland, OR (US);
Mark Anders, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Seongjong Kim, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A configurable integrated circuit to compute vector dot products between a first N-bit vector and a second N-bit vector in a plurality of precision modes. An embodiment includes M slices, each of which calculates the vector dot products between a corresponding segment of the first and the second N-bit vectors. Each of the slices outputs intermediary multiplier results for the lower precision modes, but not for highest precision mode. A plurality of adder trees to sum up the plurality of intermediate multiplier results, with each adder tree producing a respective adder out result. An accumulator to merge the adder out result from a first adder tree with the adder out result from a second adder tree to produce the vector dot product of the first and the second N-bit vector in the highest precision mode.