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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2020
Semiconductor Components Industries, Llc, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Ivo Leonardus Coenen, Coffrane, CH;
SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Abstract
According to an aspect, a neural network circuit for decoding weights of a neural network includes a weight memory configured to store encoded weights for the neural network, where the encoded weights includes an index weight word, and a decompression logic circuit configured to retrieve the encoded weights from the weight memory, decode the encoded weights using the index weight word to obtain a sequence of one or more non-pruned weight words and one or more pruned weight words, and provide the sequence of the non-pruned weight words and the pruned weight words to a plurality of input-weight multipliers.