Apparatus and methods for vector operations

A method for vector operations in a neural network, comprising:

• receiving, by a controller unit, a vector bitwise operation instruction that indicates a first address of the first vector and a second address of a second vector;
• receiving, by a computation module, the first vector and the second vector based on the first address and the second address in response to the vector bitwise operation instruction, wherein the first vector includes one or more first elements and the second vector includes one or more second elements;
• performing, by one or more bitwise processors of the computation module, bitwise operations between each of the first elements and a corresponding one of the second elements to generate one or more operation results;
• and
• combining, by a combiner of the computation module, the one or more operation results into an output vector.

A method for vector operations in a neural network, comprising:

• receiving, by a controller unit, a vector bitwise operation instruction that includes an address of a vector;
• receiving, by a computation module, the vector that includes one or more elements based on the address of the vector included in the vector bitwise operation instruction;
• and
• performing, by one or more bitwise processors of the computation module, bitwise operations to the one or more elements to generate an output result.