Patent ID: 11972348
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. A method of operating a neural processor circuit, comprising:
reading, by a tensor access operation circuit of the neural processor circuit, a source tensor from a system memory external to the neural processor circuit and coupled to the tensor access operation circuit by referencing an index tensor in the system memory representing indexing information into the source tensor;
storing an output version of the source tensor into a data processor circuit of the neural processor circuit coupled to the tensor access operation circuit;
sending the output version of the source tensor as a plurality of units of input data from the data processor circuit to at least one neural engine circuit of the neural processor circuit coupled to the data processor circuit; and
operating the at least one neural engine circuit by performing at least convolution operations on the plurality of units of input data received from the data processor circuit and at least one kernel to generate output data.