METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS TO REDUCE MEMORY LATENCY WHEN FETCHING PIXEL KERNELS

Patent №

US 11,620,726

Granted

2023-04-04

Filed 2021

Owner

MOVIDIUS LIMITED

Lab

AI components

2

vision · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17510923

Methods, systems, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to reduce memory latency when fetching pixel kernels are disclosed. An example apparatus includes first interface circuitry to receive a first request from a hardware accelerator at a first time including first coordinates of a first pixel disposed in a first image block, second interface circuitry to receive a second request including second coordinates from the hardware accelerator at a second time after the first time, and kernel retriever circuitry to, in response to the second request, determine whether the first image block is in cache storage based on a mapping of the second coordinates to a block tag, and, in response to determining that the first image block is in the cache storage, access, in parallel, two or more memory devices associated with the cache storage to transfer a plurality of image blocks including the first image block to the hardware accelerator.

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AI classification

AI hardware1.00
Vision0.93
Machine learning0.02
Knowledge representation0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

MOVIDIUS LIMITED

assignment · 615870285

Assignors

BOYD, RICHARD, RICHMOND, RICHARD

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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