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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2020
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jonathan Ross, Mountain View, CA (US);
Norman Paul Jouppi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Andrew Everett Phelps, Middleton, WI (US);
Reginald Clifford Young, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Thomas Norrie, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gregory Michael Thorson, Waunakee, WI (US);
Dan Luu, Madison, WI (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A circuit for performing neural network computations for a neural network comprising a plurality of neural network layers, the circuit comprising: a matrix computation unit configured to, for each of the plurality of neural network layers: receive a plurality of weight inputs and a plurality of activation inputs for the neural network layer, and generate a plurality of accumulated values based on the plurality of weight inputs and the plurality of activation inputs; and a vector computation unit communicatively coupled to the matrix computation unit and configured to, for each of the plurality of neural network layers: apply an activation function to each accumulated value generated by the matrix computation unit to generate a plurality of activated values for the neural network layer.