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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2019
Sambanova Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mingran Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiaoyan Li, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark Luttrell, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Yongning Sheng, San Jose, CA (US);
Gregory Frederick Grohoski, Bee Cave, TX (US);
SambaNova Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Herein are disclosed computation units for element approximation. A computation unit may include a first circuit to compute a first projection π of an input element xfrom a first range to a second range. In the first circuit, the input element xmay have a first format and the projected element ymay have a second format. In addition, in the first circuit, the second format may have more bits than the first format. The computation unit may further include a second circuit operatively coupled to the first circuit to produce a reduction zin the first format using the projected element yin the second format. The computation unit may also include a third circuit operatively coupled to the second circuit to compute a second projection ρ of the reduction zfrom the second range to the first range to produce an approximation w.