US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 23 for "SRAM-sharing for reconfigurable neural processing units" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,566, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"SRAM-sharing for reconfigurable neural processing units" was invented by Jong Hoon Shin (San Jose, Calif.), Ali Shafiee Ardestani (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Joseph H. Hassoun (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method is disclosed for processing input feature map (IFM) data of a current layer of a neural network model using an array of reconfigurable neural processing units (NPUs) and storing output feature map (OFM) data of the next layer of the neural network model at a location that does not involve a data transfer be...