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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2020
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/065 (2023.01); G06F 7/485 (2006.01); G06F 7/487 (2006.01); G06F 7/544 (2006.01); G06N 3/048 (2023.01); H03M 1/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/065 (2023.01); G06F 7/485 (2013.01); G06F 7/4876 (2013.01); G06F 7/5443 (2013.01); G06N 3/048 (2023.01); H03M 1/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
A neural network apparatus performs multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations with respect to fractions of weights and input activations in a block floating-point format by using an analog crossbar array, performs addition operations with respect to shared exponents of weights and input activations in a block floating-point format by using a digital computing circuit, and outputs a partial sum of floating-point output activations by combining the result of the MAC operations and the result of the addition operations.