Patent ID: 11880329
Assignee: SHANGHAI CAMBRICON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A hardware data processing circuit configured to process machine learning data, wherein the data processing circuit includes a machine learning device, a transmission circuit, and a shared memory, and the transmission circuit includes a plurality of read/write processing circuits and an arbitration circuit, the machine learning device includes a plurality of machine learning units, wherein each of the machine learning units includes at least one operation unit, the plurality of machine learning units are connected to the transmission circuit through a first transmission interface, the transmission circuit is connected to the shared memory;
the arbitration circuit is configured to arbitrate data operation signals sent by the plurality of machine learning units, and obtain input data required by the machine learning device from the shared memory according to data operation signals that have been successfully arbitrated; and
the read/write processing circuit is configured to determine a target machine learning unit or a target operation unit from the plurality of machine learning units according to address information carried by the data operation signals that have been successfully arbitrated or types of the data operation signals, and return the input data to the target machine learning unit or the target operation unit,
wherein the read/write processing circuit includes at least one of following processing circuits: a unicast read processing circuit, and a broadcast processing circuit; the data operation signal includes at least one of a unicast read request, a unicast write request, a multicast instruction, and a broadcast instruction, where a unicast-type processing circuit is configured to process a unicast-type signal, and a broadcast-type processing circuit is configured to process a multicast-type or broadcast-type signal.