US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS, STMicroelectronics International on Aug. 25 for "Iteration engine for the computation of large kernels in convolutional accelerators" (Italian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,865, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy) and STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Iteration engine for the computation of large kernels in convolutional accelerators" was invented by Antonio De Vita (Milan), Thomas Boesch (Rovio, Switzerland) and Giuseppe Desoli (San Fermo Della Battaglia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A convolutional accelerator includes a feature line buffer, a kernel buffer, a multiply-accumulate cluster, and iteration control circuitry. The convolutional accelerator, in operation, convolves a kernel with a streaming feature data tensor. The convo...