ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,321, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Flexible array data loading" was invented by Paul Gilbert Meyer (Jericho, Vt.) and Ron Diamant (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve utilization of a systolic array, each row of the array is provided with two or more general purpose row input buses. Each of the general purpose row input data buses can be operable to transfer either feature map (FMAP) input elements or weight values into the processing elements of the corresponding row of the array. The flexibility of the general purpose row input buses allows weights to be loaded in paral...