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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2020
Stmicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, IT;
Stmicroelectronics International N.v., Geneva, CH;
Giuseppe Desoli, San Fermo Della Battaglia, IT;
Thomas Boesch, Rovio, CH;
Carmine Cappetta, Battipaglia, IT;
Ugo Maria Iannuzzi, Milan, IT;
STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, IT;
STMicroelectronics International N.V., Geneva, CH;
Abstract
A Multiple Accumulate (MAC) hardware accelerator includes a plurality of multipliers. The plurality of multipliers multiply a digit-serial input having a plurality of digits by a parallel input having a plurality of bits by sequentially multiplying individual digits of the digit-serial input by the plurality of bits of the parallel input. A result is generated based on the multiplication of the digit-serial input by the parallel input. An accelerator framework may include multiple MAC hardware accelerators, and may be used to implement a convolutional neural network. The MAC hardware accelerators may multiple an input weight by an input feature by sequentially multiplying individual digits of the input weight by the input feature.