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Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023

Filed:

Aug. 27, 2021
Applicant:

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;

Inventor:

Jeongmin Yang, Daejeon, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 15/80 (2006.01); G06F 7/544 (2006.01); H03M 7/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3004 (2013.01); G06F 7/5443 (2013.01); G06F 9/30025 (2013.01); G06F 15/80 (2013.01); H03M 7/70 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed are a neural network accelerator and an operating method thereof, which include an instruction analyzer that analyzes a first instruction instructing an operation with respect to a first layer of a neural network algorithm from an external device, a polymorphic operator array including a plurality of operators that performs the operation with respect to the first layer under a control of the instruction analyzer, an interface that communicates with the external device and an external memory under the control of the instruction analyzer, an internal memory, a type converter, a type conversion data mover that stores data received from the external memory through the interface in the internal memory under the control of the instruction analyzer, and an internal type converter that performs a conversion of data stored in the internal memory or data generated by the polymorphic operator array under the control of the instruction analyzer.


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