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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2021
Applicant:
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ephrem Wu, San Mateo, CA (US);
Assignee:
XILINX, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/16 (2006.01); G06F 7/57 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/16 (2013.01); G06F 7/57 (2013.01);
Abstract
Examples herein describe a hardware accelerator for affine transformations (matrix multiplications followed by additions) using an outer products process. In general, the hardware accelerator reduces memory bandwidth by computing matrix multiplications as a sum of outer products. Moreover, the sum of outer products benefits parallel hardware that accelerates matrix multiplication, and is compatible with both scalar and block affine transformations, and more generally, both scalar and block matrix multiplications.