ASYMMETRIC CIRCUITRY

Patent №

US 9,607,586

Granted

2017-03-28

Filed 2014

Owner

APPLE INC.

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14183321

Techniques are disclosed relating to asymmetric circuits. In some embodiments, a storage element is configured to maintain a first input value as an input to an asymmetric circuit during a time interval. For example, in one embodiment, the time interval may correspond to a frame of video data and the storage element may be configured to store a filter coefficient for the frame of video data. In some embodiments, the storage element may be configured to store the value as a constant for multiple operations by the asymmetric circuit. In some embodiments, the asymmetric circuit is configured to generate a plurality of output values based on the first input value and respective ones of a set of second input values. In some embodiments, the asymmetric circuit is leakage power asymmetric and/or critical path asymmetric. This may increase performance and/or reduce power consumption.

AI hardwareG09G 5/395G06F 7/533H03K 19/0013H03K 19/1737

AI classification

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

Ownership

APPLE INC.

assignment · 322390436

Assignors

LIU, MICHAEL L., DENG, LIANG

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

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