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Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2022
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Christopher L. Mills, Saratoga, CA (US);

Sung Hee Park, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/063 (2023.01); G06F 7/544 (2006.01); G06F 17/15 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/063 (2013.01); G06F 7/5443 (2013.01); G06F 17/15 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a neural engine of a neural processor circuit having multiple multiply-add circuits and an accumulator circuit coupled to the multiply-add circuits. The multiply-add circuits perform multiply-add operations of a three dimensional convolution on a work unit of input data using a kernel to generate at least a portion of output data in a processing cycle. The accumulator circuit includes multiple batches of accumulators. Each batch of accumulators receives and stores, after the processing cycle, the portion of the output data for each output depth plane of multiple output depth planes. A corresponding batch of accumulators stores, after the processing cycle, the portion of the output data for a subset of the output channels and for each output depth plane.


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