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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Andrew S. Cassidy, San Jose, CA (US);
Rathinakumar Appuswamy, San Jose, CA (US);
John V. Arthur, Mountain View, CA (US);
Pallab Datta, San Jose, CA (US);
Steven K. Esser, San Jose, CA (US);
Myron D. Flickner, San Jose, CA (US);
Jennifer Klamo, San Jose, CA (US);
Dharmendra S. Modha, San Jose, CA (US);
Hartmut Penner, San Jose, CA (US);
Jun Sawada, Austin, TX (US);
Brian Taba, Cupertino, CA (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Hardware neural network processors, are provided. A neural core includes a weight memory, an activation memory, a vector-matrix multiplier, and a vector processor. The vector-matrix multiplier is adapted to receive a weight matrix from the weight memory, receive an activation vector from the activation memory, and compute a vector-matrix multiplication of the weight matrix and the activation vector. The vector processor is adapted to receive one or more input vector from one or more vector source and perform one or more vector functions on the one or more input vector to yield an output vector. In some embodiments a programmable controller is adapted to configure and operate the neural core.