US Patent Issued to Synopsys on May 5 for "Efficient look-up table based functions for artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,864, issued on May 5, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Efficient look-up table based functions for artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator" was invented by Johannes Boonstra (Deurne, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for approximating an activation function, the method including: receiving an input value of the activation function; determining that the input value is within a range, the range includes a set of non-uniform intervals; determining a selected interval from among the set of non-uniform intervals including the input value; retrieving, by a hardware accelerator, from a look-up table (LUT)...