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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2015
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Enric Herrero Abellanas, Cardedeu, ES;
Georgios Tournavitis, Barcelona, ES;
Frederico C. Pratas, Mirandela, ES;
Marc Lupon, Barcelona, ES;
Fernando Latorre, Cambridge, GB;
Pedro Lopez, Molins de Rei, ES;
Ayose J. Falcon, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, ES;
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A storage device and method are described for performing convolution operations. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus to perform convolution operations comprises a plurality of processing units to execute convolution operations on input data and partial results; a unified scratchpad memory comprising a plurality of memory banks communicatively coupled to the plurality of processing units through a plurality of read/write ports, each of the plurality of memory banks partitioned to store both the input data and partial results; a control unit to allocate the input data and partial results to the memory banks to ensure a minimum quality of service in accordance with the specified number of read/write ports and the specified convolution operation to be performed.