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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022
Filed:
May. 04, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Christopher L. Mills, Saratoga, CA (US);
Erik K. Norden, San Jose, CA (US);
Sung Hee Park, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments relate to a neural processor circuit including a plurality of neural engine circuits, a data buffer, and a kernel fetcher circuit. At least one of the neural engine circuits is configured to receive matrix elements of a matrix as at least the portion of the input data from the data buffer over multiple processing cycles. The at least one neural engine circuit further receives vector elements of a vector from the kernel fetcher circuit, wherein each of the vector elements is extracted as a corresponding kernel to the at least one neural engine circuit in each of the processing cycles. The at least one neural engine circuit performs multiplication between the matrix and the vector as a convolution operation to produce at least one output channel of the output data.