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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2024
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Ashraf Ayman Michail, Kirkland, WA (US);
Li Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Nitin Naresh Garegrat, San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas Craig Savell, Emeryville, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A hardware accelerator is disclosed that can flexibly be configured to support differing data types and differing operation flows. The hardware accelerator includes a plurality of fixed tensor operation logic units, tensor operation pipeline logic configured to receive from the processor a pipeline command including a software-defined tensor operation pipeline definition defining a plurality of tensor operation stages in a tensor operation pipeline and associated predetermined tensor operations to be performed at each of the defined tensor operation stages. The hardware accelerator is further configured to receive tensor data to be computed by the tensor operation pipeline, and implement the tensor operation pipeline to perform the tensor operations in each of the tensor operation stages on the tensor data, to thereby produce a tensor operation pipeline result for the tensor data, and output the tensor operation pipeline result to the processor.