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Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 23, 2019
Applicant:

Shanghai Cambricon Information Technology Co., Ltd, Pudong New Area, CN;

Inventors:

Tianshi Chen, Pudong New Area, CN;

Xiaobin Chen, Pudong New Area, CN;

Tian Zhi, Pudong New Area, CN;

Zidong Du, Pudong New Area, CN;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/063 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/063 (2013.01); G06F 9/30029 (2013.01); G06F 9/30025 (2013.01); G06F 9/30083 (2013.01); G06F 9/3802 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure provides a neural network processor and neural network computation method that deploy a memory and a cache to perform a neural network computation, where the memory may be configured to store data and instructions of the neural network computation, the cache may be connected to the memory via a memory bus, thereby, the actual compute ability of hardware may be fully utilized, the cost and power consumption overhead may be reduced, parallelism of the network may be fully utilized, and the efficiency of the neural network computation may be improved.


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