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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 11, 2019
Applicant:

Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;

Inventor:
Assignee:

Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06N 3/063 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2022.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/0635 (2013.01); G06F 9/3012 (2013.01); G06F 9/30101 (2013.01); G06F 13/1663 (2013.01); G06K 9/6217 (2013.01);
Abstract

There is provided a neural processing unit (NPU), including a primary processing node containing primary control registers and processing circuitry configured to write control data to the primary control registers, and multiple secondary processing nodes each having respective secondary control registers and being configured to process data in accordance with control data stored by the respective secondary control registers. The NPU also includes a bus interface for transmitting data between the primary processing node and the plurality of secondary processing nodes. The primary processing node is configured to transmit first control data to a given secondary control register of each of the plurality of secondary processing nodes.


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