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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Hartmut Penner, San Jose, CA (US);
Dharmendra S. Modha, San Jose, CA (US);
John V. Arthur, Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrew S. Cassidy, San Jose, CA (US);
Rathinakumar Appuswamy, San Jose, 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);
Jun Sawada, Austin, TX (US);
Brian Taba, Cupertino, CA (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Instruction distribution in an array of neural network cores is provided. In various embodiments, a neural inference chip is initialized with core microcode. The chip comprises a plurality of neural cores. The core microcode is executable by the neural cores to execute a tensor operation of a neural network. The core microcode is distributed to the plurality of neural cores via an on-chip network. The core microcode is executed synchronously by the plurality of neural cores to compute a neural network layer.