Patent ID: 11900262
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 18:
19. A neural network device for processing an operation processing graph comprising a plurality of operations, the neural network device comprising:
an internal memory storing a first feature map; and
at least one processor configured to implement at least one resource configured to:
partition the operation processing graph into a plurality of modules;
obtain a second feature map by performing a first operation among the plurality of operations, based on the stored first feature map;
store the obtained second feature map in the internal memory; and
obtain a third feature map by performing a second operation among the plurality of operations, based on the stored second feature map,

wherein each of the plurality of modules comprises a plurality of branches,
wherein each branch of the plurality of branches corresponds to a memory area size from among a plurality of memory area sizes for processing the plurality of branches, and wherein operations included in each branch are independent from operations included in other branches from among the plurality of branches,
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to determine a processing order of the plurality of branches, and
wherein the processing order arranges the plurality of branches such that the plurality of memory area sizes increase sequentially or such that the plurality of memory area sizes decrease sequentially.