Optimized multiply-accumulate operator for ai calculations
OwnerJulien LE MAIRE, Benoit DUPONT DE DINECHIN +1inventors
InventorsJulien LE MAIRE, Benoit DUPONT DE DINECHIN, Arnaud ODINOT
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a hardware hybrid multiply-accumulate operator configured to multiply a multiplicand formatted as a floating-point number by a multiplicand formatted as an integer and add an integer-formatted result of the multiplication to an operand formatted as an integer.
Claims4
A hybrid hardware multiply-accumulate operator configured to multiply a multiplicand formatted as a floating-point number by a multiplicand formatted as an integer number and add a result of the multiplication to an operand formatted as an integer number, wherein the result of the multiplication is an integer number of the same format as the operand, except for a carry bit.
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