NEURAL NETWORK DEVICE FOR NEURAL NETWORK OPERATION, OPERATING METHOD OF THE NEURAL NETWORK DEVICE, AND APPLICATION PROCESSOR INCLUDING THE SAME

A neural network device includes a calculation circuit that includes a first multiplier, a second multiplier, an align shifter, and an adder. The adder shares the first multiplier and the second multiplier. The calculation circuit performs a first dot product operation on a plurality of floating poi...

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Hauptverfasser: Lee, Doyoung, Kim, Hasong, Kim, Hyunpil, Sim, Hyunwoo, Ahn, Seongwoo
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A neural network device includes a calculation circuit that includes a first multiplier, a second multiplier, an align shifter, and an adder. The adder shares the first multiplier and the second multiplier. The calculation circuit performs a first dot product operation on a plurality of floating point data pairs or a second dot product operation on a plurality of integer data pairs. In the first dot product operation, the calculation circuit obtains a plurality of fraction multiplication results from the plurality of floating point data pairs, respectively, using the first multiplier, adds the plurality of fraction multiplication results using the adder and outputs first cumulative data. In the second dot product operation, the calculation circuit obtains a plurality of integer multiplication results from the plurality of integer data pairs, respectively, using the second multiplier, adds the plurality of integer multiplication results using the adder, and outputs second cumulative data.