The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2022
Expedera, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Siyad Ma, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Shang-Tse Chuang, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sharad Chole, San Jose, CA (US);
EXPEDERA, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Artificial intelligence is an extremely computationally intensive field such that it can be expensive, time consuming, and energy consuming. Fortunately, many of the calculations required for artificial intelligence can be performed in parallel such that specialized processors can greatly increase computational performance. Specifically, artificial intelligence generally requires large numbers of matrix operations to implement neural networks such that specialized matrix processor circuits can improve performance. To perform all these matrix operations, the matrix processor circuits must be quickly and efficiently supplied with data to process or else the matrix processor circuits end up idle or spending large amounts of time loading in different weight matrix data. Thus, apparatus and methods are provided for efficiently operating external interfaces on neural network processors that efficiently interleave and overlap external memory operations along with computation operations such that both the external interface and matrix processor circuits are used efficiently.