US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on March 4 for "Systolic neural CPU processor" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,416, issued on March 4, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Systolic neural CPU processor" was invented by Jie Gu (Evanston, Ill.) and Yuhao Ju (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A systolic neural CPU (SNCPU) including a two-dimensional systolic array of reconfigurable processing elements (PE's) fuses a conventional CPU with a convolutional neural network (CNN) accelerator in four phases of operation: row-CPU, column-accelerator, column-CPU, and row-accelerator. The SNCPU cycles through the four phases to avoid costly data movement across cores, reduce overhead, and reduce latency. The PE's communic...