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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2021
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Ren Li, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method, including: storing a depthwise convolution kernel in a first one or more columns of a CIM array; storing a fused convolution kernel in a second one or more columns of the CIM array; storing pre-activations in one or more input data buffers associated with a plurality of rows of the CIM array; processing the pre-activations with the depthwise convolution kernel in order to generate depthwise output; modifying one or more of the pre-activations based on the depthwise output to generate modified pre-activations; and processing the modified pre-activations with the fused convolution kernel to generate fused output.