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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2021
Applicant:
Sambanova Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Vojin G. Oklobdzija, Berkeley, CA (US);
Matthew M. Kim, Frankston South, AU;
Assignee:
SAMBANOVA SYSTEMS, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/544 (2006.01); G06F 7/483 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/5443 (2013.01); G06F 7/483 (2013.01);
Abstract
A Floating point Multiply-Add, Accumulate Unit, supporting BF16 format for Multiply-Accumulate operations, and FP32 Single-Precision Addition complying with the IEEE 754 Standard is described with exception handling. Operations including exception handling in a way that does not interfere with execution of data flow operations, overflow detection, zero detection and sign extension are adopted for 2's complement and Carry-Save format.