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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2017
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Yongjun Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Jindrich Zejda, Saratoga, CA (US);
Elliott Delaye, San Jose, CA (US);
Ashish Sirasao, San Jose, CA (US);
XILINX, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments herein describe techniques for expressing the layers of a neural network in a software model. In one embodiment, the software model includes a class that describes the various functional blocks (e.g., convolution units, max-pooling units, rectified linear units (ReLU), and scaling functions) used to execute the neural network layers. In turn, other classes in the software model can describe the operation of each of the functional blocks. In addition, the software model can include conditional logic for expressing how the data flows between the functional blocks since different layers in the neural network can process the data differently. A compiler can convert the high-level code in the software model (e.g., C++) into a hardware description language (e.g., register transfer level (RTL)) which is used to configure a hardware system to implement a neural network accelerator.