2021 BRN Discussion, page-20277

Hi IDD,

I'm afraid that you've unleashed the ogre.

US2019212981A1 NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING UNIT INCLUDING APPROXIMATE MULTIPLIER AND SYSTEM ON CHIP INCLUDING THE SAME

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[0065] Referring to FIG. 6, the neural processing unit 140 -m may include and/or may be configured to implement the functionality of an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) 160 m , an accumulator 170 m , and an activation function unit (AFU) 180 m . In addition, the neural processing unit 140 -m may further include a multiplexer 150 m and/or may be configured to implement the functionality of a multiplexer 150 m.

ALUs don't spike.


[0100] The NPU 1058 , which is exclusive hardware for the neural network, may include neural processing units corresponding to at least some neurons constituting the neural network, and at least some of the neural processing units may process signals in parallel. The NPU 1058 according to some example embodiments of the present disclosure may include an approximate multiplier and a rounder and may perform neural network training accordingly, which enables fixed-point training with high accuracy, thereby improving the operational performance and/or functionality of the mobile computing device 1000 . In addition, since stochastic rounding may be performed even without a separate random number generator, an area and power consumption of the NPU 1058 may decrease, thereby further improving the operational performance and/or functionality of the mobile computing device 1000 .

Don't recall Akida playing rounders.