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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021
Filed:
May. 16, 2018
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Luiz M. Franca-Neto, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Luis V. Cargnini, San Jose, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
At least a subset of first processing units of a first arrangement of an array of processing units is assigned to perform computations of a first layer of a neural network and at least a subset of second processing units of a last arrangement is assigned to perform computations of a second layer. At least a second subset of the first processing units of the first arrangement is re-assigned to perform computations of a third layer. In one aspect, it is determined that a number of layers exceeds a number of arrangements of processing units of a systolic processing chip. A first arrangement of processing units of the number of arrangements is assigned to perform computations according to a first layer for a first set of forward propagations, and the first arrangement is assigned to perform computations according to a different layer for a second set of forward propagations.