Computing device using sparsity data and operating method thereof
AssigneeKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
InventorsHoi Jun YOO, Sanghoon KANG
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Abstract
A computing device includes a first computing core that generates sparsity data based on a first sign bit and first exponent bits of first data and a second sign bit and second exponent bits based on second data, and a second computing core that outputs a result value of a floating point calculation of the first data and the second data as output data or skips the floating point calculation and outputs the output data having a given value, based on the sparsity data.
Claims19
A computing device comprising:
- a first computing core configured to generate sparsity data based on a first sign bit and first exponent bits of first data and a second sign bit and second exponent bits based on second data;
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- a second computing core configured to output a result value of a floating point calculation of the first data and the second data as output data or configured to skip the floating point calculation and to output the output data having a given value, based on the sparsity data.
A computing device comprising:
- a first computing core configured to generate sparsity data based on first data and second data;
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- a second computing core configured to output one of a result value of a floating point calculation of the first data and the second data and a given value as output data, based on the sparsity data.
An operating method of a computing device, the method comprising:
- receiving first data including a first sign bit, first exponent bits, and first fraction bits and second data including a second sign bit, second exponent bits, and second fraction bits;
- generating sparsity data based on the first sign bit, the first exponent bits, the second sign bit, and the second exponent bits;
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- based on the sparsity data, generating a result value of a floating point calculation of the first data and the second data as output data or skipping the floating point calculation and outputting the output data having a given value.
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