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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Jeremy Fowers, Seattle, WA (US);
Kalin Ovtcharov, Issaquah, WA (US);
Eric S. Chung, Woodinville, WA (US);
Todd Michael Massengill, Woodinville, WA (US);
Ming Gang Liu, Kirkland, WA (US);
Gabriel Leonard Weisz, Bethesda, MD (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Neural network processors including a vector register file (VRF) having a multi-port memory and related methods are provided. The processor may include tiles to process an N by N matrix of data elements and an N by 1 vector of data elements. The VRF may, in response to a write instruction, store N data elements in a multi-port memory and during each one of out of P clock cycles provide N data elements to each one of P input interface circuits of the multi-port memory comprising an input lane configured to carry L data elements in parallel. During the each one of the P clock cycles the multi-port memory may be configured to receive N data elements via a selected at least one of the P input interface circuits. The VRF may include output interface circuits for providing N data elements in response to a read instruction.