2021 BRN Discussion, page-19670

Hi Bavo,

We looked at Tesla patents a few weeks ago - Elon is keen on CNN, and off the top of my head, I don;t recall seeing any references to spikes, eg:

WO2019118517A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERTING A MATRIX INPUT TO A VECTORIZED INPUT FOR A MATRIX P ROCESSOR
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/066696896/publication/WO2019118517A1?q=WO2019118517





[0004] FIG. 1 shows an example of a conventional matrix multiplication system. System 100 is a scalar machine that comprises computation unit 102, registers 104, cache 106, and memory 108. In operation, computation unit 102 uses registers 104 and cache 106 to process data stored in memory 108. The processed data is, for example, image data and weights used for a convolution operation to process an image. Typically, computation unit 102 is a microprocessor, such as a CPU or GPU, capable of performing a matrix multiplication on input matrices to obtain a resultant matrix, e.g., by converting multiplications into additions and outputting the result into some internal register.