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Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 17, 2017
Applicant:

Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ashish Sirasao, San Jose, CA (US);

Elliott Delaye, San Jose, CA (US);

Sean Settle, San Jose, CA (US);

Zhao Ma, San Jose, CA (US);

Ehsan Ghasemi, San Jose, CA (US);

Xiao Teng, San Jose, CA (US);

Aaron Ng, San Jose, CA (US);

Jindrich Zejda, Saratoga, CA (US);

Assignee:

XILINX, INC., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/327 (2020.01); G06F 7/544 (2006.01); G06N 3/04 (2006.01); G06F 30/34 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/327 (2020.01); G06F 7/5443 (2013.01); G06F 30/34 (2020.01); G06N 3/04 (2013.01); G06F 2207/4812 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example multiply accumulate (MACC) circuit includes: a multiply-accumulator having an accumulator output register; a quantizer, coupled to the multiply accumulator; and a control circuit coupled to the multiply-accumulator and the quantizer, the control circuit configured to provide control data to the quantizer, the control data indicative of a most-significant bit (MSB) to least significant bit (LSB) range for selecting bit indices from the accumulator output register.


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