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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2020
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Kiran Gunnam, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Anand Kulkarni, San Jose, CA (US);
Zvonimir Bandic, San Jose, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes a tensor compute cluster having a plurality of tensor compute units to process a plurality of sub-feature maps in a machine learning application and a tensor memory cluster having a plurality of tensor feature map memory units to store the plurality of sub-feature maps. The apparatus also includes circuitry to partition an input feature map into the plurality of sub-feature maps such that sparsity in each of the plurality of sub-feature maps satisfies a predetermined threshold, and assign each of the plurality of sub-feature maps to one of the plurality of tensor compute units and one of the plurality of tensor feature map memory units for processing in parallel.