Patent ID: 11900242
Assignee: CAMBRICON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An integrated circuit chip apparatus, comprising:
a main processing circuit; and
a plurality of basic processing circuits arranged in a form of an array, wherein the main processing circuit is connected to k basic processing circuits of the plurality of basic processing circuits arranged on one or more sides of the array,
wherein the main processing circuit is configured to transfer data and a computation instruction to the k basic processing circuits, wherein the data comprises a broadcast data block and a plurality of basic data blocks partitioned from a data block to be computed,
wherein to transfer the data to the k basic processing circuits, the main processing circuit is further configured to:
distribute the plurality of basic data blocks to the k basic processing circuits; and
broadcast the broadcasting data block to the k basic processing circuits,

wherein the k basic processing circuits are configured to forward data received from the main processing circuit to the other basic processing circuits among the plurality of basic processing circuits,
wherein the plurality of basic processing circuits are configured to perform a first set of neural network computations in parallel on the data transferred, and transfer computation results to the main processing circuit through the k basic processing circuits,
wherein the main processing circuit is further configured to perform a second set of neural network computations in series on the computation results.