Patent ID: 11900241
Assignee: CAMBRICON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A processing system, comprising:
a neural network computing apparatus;
a general interconnection interface; and
a general-purpose processing apparatus connected to the neural network computing apparatus via the general interconnection interface,
wherein the neural network computing apparatus further comprises:
a main processing circuit; and
a plurality of basic processing circuits comprising data type conversion circuits configured to convert data between a floating data type and a fixed point data type,
wherein the main processing circuit is configured to transfer data and a computation instruction to the plurality of basic processing circuits,
wherein the plurality of basic processing circuits are configured to, when the data transferred to the basic processing circuits is in the floating point data type:
convert the data into the fixed point data type;
perform a first set of neural network computations in parallel in the fixed point data type on the data to obtain computation results in the fixed point data type;
convert the computation results in the fixed point data type into the floating point data type: and
transfer the computation results to the main processing circuit in the floating point data type.