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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2020
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Urmish Ajit Thakker, Austin, TX (US);
Shidhartha Das, Upper Cambourne, GB;
Ganesh Suryanarayan Dasika, Austin, TX (US);
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
The present disclosure advantageously provides a hybrid memory artificial neural network hardware accelerator that includes a communication bus interface, a static memory, a non-refreshed dynamic memory, a controller and a computing engine. The static memory stores at least a portion of an ANN model. The ANN model includes an input layer, one or more hidden layers and an output layer, ANN basis weights, input data and output data. The non-refreshed dynamic memory is configured to store ANN custom weights for the input, hidden and output layers, and output data. For each layer or layer portion, the computing engine generates the ANN custom weights based on the ANN basis weights, stores the ANN custom weights in the non-refreshed dynamic memory, executes the layer or layer portion, based on inputs and the ANN custom weights, to generate layer output data, and stores the layer output data.