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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2020
Flex Logix Technologies, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Frederick A Ware, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Cheng C. Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Flex Logix Technologies, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and/or an integrated circuit including: (a) a multiplier-accumulator execution pipeline including multiplier-accumulator circuits to process image data, using associated filter weights, via a plurality of multiply and accumulate operations and (b) first data format conversion circuitry including (i) inputs to receive filter weights of a plurality of sets of filter weights, wherein each set includes a plurality of filter weights each having a block-scaled fraction data format, (ii) conversion circuitry, coupled to the inputs, to convert the filter weights of each set from the block-scaled fraction data format to a floating point data format, and (iii) outputs to output the filter weights having the floating point data format. In operation, the multiplier-accumulator circuits of the pipeline are configured to perform the plurality of multiply and accumulate operations using (a) the image data and (b) the filter weights having the floating point data format.