Integer-based fused convolutional layer in a convolutional neural network

Abstract

An example fused convolutional layer, comprising, a comparator capable of reception of a first zero point and a multiply-accumulation result, a first multiplexer coupled to the comparator, wherein the first multiplexer receives a plurality of power-of-two exponent values, a shift normalizer, coupled to the first multiplexer, wherein the shift normalizer is capable of receiving the multiply-accumulation result and the plurality of power-of-two exponent values, wherein the shift normalizer limits a quantization of the multiply-accumulation result to a power-of-two scale and a second multiplexer coupled to an output of the shift normalizer, the first multiplexer and receives a second zero point and outputs an activation.

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