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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2018
Tesla, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Peter Joseph Bannon, Woodside, CA (US);
Kevin Altair Hurd, Redwood City, CA (US);
Tesla, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
Described herein are systems and methods that utilize a novel hardware-based pooling architecture to process the output of a convolution engine representing an output channel of a convolution layer in a convolutional neural network (CNN). The pooling system converts the output into a set of arrays and aligns them according to a pooling operation to generate a pooling result. In certain embodiments, this is accomplished by using an aligner that aligns, e.g., over a number of arithmetic cycles, an array of data in the output into rows and shifts the rows relative to each other. A pooler applies a pooling operation to a combination of a subset of data from each row to generate the pooling result.