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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2020
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Ngai Ngai William Hung, San Jose, CA (US);
Dhiraj Goswami, Wilsonville, OR (US);
Michael Patrick Zimmer, Chicago, IL (US);
Yong Liu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An approach includes identification of a machine learning model for processing and generating an ordered set of weights with varying precisions and metadata that specifies where those values can be found in order to allow the identification of weights needed during processing. In a first embodiment, the variable precision weights are separated into different memory segments where each segment has weights of only a single precision. In a second embodiment, the variable precision weights are provided in a memory where weights of different precisions are intermingled, and those weights are identified using a sequence of pairs of data representing a number of weights with the same precision and the precision of those weights. In some embodiments, both the first and second embodiments are combined, where some segments contain weights with only a single precision and at least one segment stores weights with different precisions within a respective segment.