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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2019
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Luiz M. Franca-Neto, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Viacheslav Dubeyko, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06N 3/02 (2006.01); G11C 14/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0655 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06N 3/02 (2013.01); G11C 14/0009 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of an improved memory architecture by processing data inside of the memory device are described. In some embodiments, the memory device can store neural network layers, such as a systolic flow engine, in non-volatile memory and/or a separate DRAM memory. Central processing unit (CPU) of a host system can delegate the execution of a neural network to the memory device. Advantageously, neural network processing in the memory device can be scalable, with the ability to process large amounts of data.