COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN PROCESSORS AND STORAGE DEVICES IN AUTOMOTIVE PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE IMPLEMENTED VIA ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS

Systems, methods and apparatus of communications with a data storage device in neural network computations. For example, a vehicle can have a set of sensors configured to generate a sensor data stream for predictive Maintenance. One or more processors of the vehicle generates inputs to artificial neurons based on the sensor data. The inputs are written into the data storage device, which is configured with a neural network accelerator and stores model data of an artificial neural network (ANN). The neural network accelerator applies the inputs to the ANN to generate outputs. The data storage device reports the availability of the outputs (e.g., using a response to the request to write the inputs into the data storage device). The processor(s) of the vehicle can selectively read the outputs from the data storage device and/or request the data storage device to store the outputs from buffer to non-volatile memory.