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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2021
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Arnab Raha, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Debabrata Mohapatra, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Gautham Chinya, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Guruguhanathan Venkataramanan, Livermore, CA (US);
Sang Kyun Kim, San Jose, CA (US);
Deepak Mathaikutty, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Raymond Sung, San Francisco, CA (US);
Cormac Brick, San Francisco, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward techniques and configurations enhancing the performance of hardware (HW) accelerators. Disclosed embodiments include static MAC scaling arrangement, which includes architectures and techniques for scaling the performance per unit of power and performance per area of HW accelerators. Disclosed embodiments also include dynamic MAC scaling arrangement, which includes architectures and techniques for dynamically scaling the number of active multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) within an HW accelerator based on activation and weight sparsity. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.