Abstract: System and method for implementing accelerated memory transfers in an integrated circuit includes identifying memory access parameters for configuring memory access instructions for accessing a target corpus of data from within a defined region of an n-dimensional memory; converting the memory access parameters to direct memory access (DMA) controller-executable instructions, wherein the converting includes: (i) defining dimensions of a data access tile based on a first parameter of the memory access parameters; (ii) generating multi-directional data accessing instructions that, when executed, automatically moves the data access tile along multiple distinct axes within the defined region of the n-dimensional memory based at least on a second parameter of the memory access parameters; transferring a corpus of data from the n-dimensional memory to a target memory based on executing the DMA controller-executable instructions.

Abstract: Systems and methods for virtually partitioning an integrated circuit may include identifying dimensional attributes of a target input dataset and selecting a data partitioning scheme from a plurality of distinct data partitioning schemes for the target input dataset based on the dimensional attributes of the target dataset and architectural attributes of an integrated circuit. The methods described herein may also include disintegrating the target dataset into a plurality of distinct subsets of data based on the selected data partitioning scheme and identifying a virtual processing core partitioning scheme from a plurality of distinct processing core partitioning schemes for an architecture of the integrated circuit based on the disintegration of the target input dataset.

Abstract: Systems and methods of propagating data within an integrated circuit includes: identifying a coarse data propagation path for distinct subsets of data of an input dataset that includes: setting inter-core data movements for the distinct subsets of data, the inter-core data movements defining a predetermined propagation of a given subset of data between two or more of a plurality of cores of an integrated circuit array of the integrated circuit; identifying a granular data propagation path for each distinct subset of data that includes: setting intra-core data movements for each distinct subset of data, the intra-core data movements defining a predetermined propagation of the given subset of data within one or more of the plurality of cores of the integrated circuit array of the integrated circuit; enabling a flow of the input dataset within the integrated circuit based on the coarse data propagation path and the granular propagation path.

Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing accelerated memory transfers in an integrated circuit includes configuring a region of memory of an on-chip data buffer based on a neural network computation graph, wherein configuring the region of memory includes: partitioning the region of memory of the on-chip data buffer to include a first distinct sub-region of memory and a second distinct sub-region of memory; initializing a plurality of distinct memory transfer operations from the off-chip main memory to the on-chip data buffer; executing a first set of memory transfer operations that includes writing a first set of computational components to the first distinct sub-region of memory, and while executing, using the integrated circuit, a leading computation based on the first set of computational components, executing a second set of memory transfer operations to the second distinct sub-region of memory for an impending computation.

Abstract: Systems and methods for fetchless acceleration of convolutional loops on an integrated circuit include identifying, by a compiler, finite state machine (FSM) initialization parameters based on computational requirements of a computational loop; initializing a programmable FSM based on the FSM initialization parameters, wherein the FSM initialization parameters include a loop iteration parameter identifying a number of computation cycles of the computational loop; executing the programmable FSM to enable fetchless computations by: generating a plurality of computational loop control signals including a distinct computation loop control signal for each of the number of computation cycles of the computational loop based on the loop iteration parameter; and controlling an execution of a plurality of computation cycles of a computational circuit performing the computational loop based on transmitting the plurality of computational loop control signals until the number of computation cycles of the computation loop

Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing accelerated memory transfers in an integrated circuit includes configuring a region of memory of an on-chip data buffer based on a neural network computation graph, wherein configuring the region of memory includes: partitioning the region of memory of the on-chip data buffer to include a first distinct sub-region of memory and a second distinct sub-region of memory; initializing a plurality of distinct memory transfer operations from the off-chip main memory to the on-chip data buffer; executing a first set of memory transfer operations that includes writing a first set of computational components to the first distinct sub-region of memory, and while executing, using the integrated circuit, a leading computation based on the first set of computational components, executing a second set of memory transfer operations to the second distinct sub-region of memory for an impending computation.

Abstract: System and method for implementing accelerated memory transfers in an integrated circuit includes identifying memory access parameters for configuring memory access instructions for accessing a target corpus of data from within a defined region of an n-dimensional memory; converting the memory access parameters to direct memory access (DMA) controller-executable instructions, wherein the converting includes: (i) defining dimensions of a data access tile based on a first parameter of the memory access parameters; (ii) generating multi-directional data accessing instructions that, when executed, automatically moves the data access tile along multiple distinct axes within the defined region of the n-dimensional memory based at least on a second parameter of the memory access parameters; transferring a corpus of data from the n-dimensional memory to a target memory based on executing the DMA controller-executable instructions.

Abstract: Systems and methods for virtually partitioning an integrated circuit may include identifying dimensional attributes of a target input dataset and selecting a data partitioning scheme from a plurality of distinct data partitioning schemes for the target input dataset based on the dimensional attributes of the target dataset and architectural attributes of an integrated circuit. The methods described herein may also include disintegrating the target dataset into a plurality of distinct subsets of data based on the selected data partitioning scheme and identifying a virtual processing core partitioning scheme from a plurality of distinct processing core partitioning schemes for an architecture of the integrated circuit based on the disintegration of the target input dataset.

Abstract: Systems and methods of propagating data within an integrated circuit includes: identifying a coarse data propagation path for distinct subsets of data of an input dataset that includes: setting inter-core data movements for the distinct subsets of data, the inter-core data movements defining a predetermined propagation of a given subset of data between two or more of a plurality of cores of an integrated circuit array of the integrated circuit; identifying a granular data propagation path for each distinct subset of data that includes: setting intra-core data movements for each distinct subset of data, the intra-core data movements defining a predetermined propagation of the given subset of data within one or more of the plurality of cores of the integrated circuit array of the integrated circuit; enabling a flow of the input dataset within the integrated circuit based on the coarse data propagation path and the granular propagation path.

Abstract: Systems and methods of configuring an array of processors of an integrated circuit includes identifying a fast Fourier transform (FFT) matrix multiply of input data, wherein the FFT matrix multiply of the input data includes a bit-reversed input array, configuring the array of processing cores based on the bit-reversed input array, wherein the configuring the array of processing cores includes storing the input bits of the bit-reversed input array within memory circuits of distinct processing cores of an array of processing cores of the integrated circuit based on an input bit mapping that identifies a pre-determined storage location within the array of processing cores of each input bit of the bit-reversed input array, and performing matrix multiply computations between weight stages of the FFT matrix multiply and the input bits of the bit-reversed input array stored within the memory circuits of the distinct processing cores.

Abstract: A circuit that includes a plurality of array cores, each array core of the plurality of array cores comprising: a plurality of distinct data processing circuits; and a data queue register file; a plurality of border cores, each border core of the plurality of border cores comprising: at least a register file, wherein: [i] at least a subset of the plurality of border cores encompasses a periphery of a first subset of the plurality of array cores; and [ii] a combination of the plurality of array cores and the plurality of border cores define an integrated circuit array.

Abstract: Systems and methods of implementing tile-level predication of a computing tile of an integrated circuit includes identifying a plurality of distinct predicate state values for each of a plurality of distinct processing cores of the computing tile; calculating one or more summed predicate state values for an entirety of the plurality of distinct processing cores based on performing a summation operation of the plurality of distinct predicate state values; propagating the one or more summed predicate state values to an instructions generating circuit of the integrated circuit; and identifying, by the instructions generating circuit, a tile-level predication for the computing tile based on input of the one or more summed predicate state values.

Abstract: Systems and methods of propagating data within an integrated circuit includes: identifying a coarse data propagation path for distinct subsets of data of an input dataset that includes: setting inter-core data movements for the distinct subsets of data, the inter-core data movements defining a predetermined propagation of a given subset of data between two or more of a plurality of cores of an integrated circuit array of the integrated circuit; identifying a granular data propagation path for each distinct subset of data that includes: setting intra-core data movements for each distinct subset of data, the intra-core data movements defining a predetermined propagation of the given subset of data within one or more of the plurality of cores of the integrated circuit array of the integrated circuit; enabling a flow of the input dataset within the integrated circuit based on the coarse data propagation path and the granular propagation path.

Abstract: Systems and methods for virtually partitioning an integrated circuit may include identifying dimensional attributes of a target input dataset and selecting a data partitioning scheme from a plurality of distinct data partitioning schemes for the target input dataset based on the dimensional attributes of the target dataset and architectural attributes of an integrated circuit. The method may include disintegrating the target dataset into a plurality of distinct subsets of data based on the selected data partitioning scheme and identifying a virtual processing core partitioning scheme from a plurality of distinct processing core partitioning schemes for an architecture of the integrated circuit based on the disintegration of the target input dataset.

Abstract: A system and method for random access augmented flow-based processing within an integrated circuit includes computing, by a plurality of distinct processing cores, a plurality of linear indices and associated valid bits; propagating the plurality of linear indices in a predetermined manner to a plurality of columns of first-in, first-out buffers; loading, from the FIFO buffers, the plurality of linear indices to a content addressable memory; at the CAM: coalescing redundant linear indices in each of the plurality of FIFO buffers; performing lookups for a plurality of memory addresses based on the plurality of linear indices; collecting at a read data buffer a plurality of distinct pieces of data from one of an on-chip memory based on the plurality of memory addresses; reading the plurality of distinct pieces of data from the read data buffer; and propagating the plurality of distinct pieces of data into the processing cores.

Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing an integrated circuit with core-level predication includes: a plurality of processing cores of an integrated circuit, wherein each of the plurality of cores includes: a predicate stack defined by a plurality of single-bit registers that operate together based on one or more of logical connections and physical connections of the plurality of single-bit registers, wherein: the predicate stack of each of the plurality of processing cores includes a top of stack single-bit register of the plurality of single-bit registers having a bit entry value that controls whether select instructions to the given processing core of the plurality of processing cores is executed.

Abstract: A circuit that includes a plurality of array cores, each array core of the plurality of array cores comprising: a plurality of distinct data processing circuits; and a data queue register file; a plurality of border cores, each border core of the plurality of border cores comprising: at least a register file, wherein: [i] at least a subset of the plurality of border cores encompasses a periphery of a first subset of the plurality of array cores; and [ii] a combination of the plurality of array cores and the plurality of border cores define an integrated circuit array.

Abstract: A circuit that includes a plurality of array cores, each array core of the plurality of array cores comprising: a plurality of distinct data processing circuits; and a data queue register file; a plurality of border cores, each border core of the plurality of border cores comprising: at least a register file, wherein: [i] at least a subset of the plurality of border cores encompasses a periphery of a first subset of the plurality of array cores; and [ii] a combination of the plurality of array cores and the plurality of border cores define an integrated circuit array.

Abstract: A circuit that includes a plurality of array cores, each array core of the plurality of array cores comprising: a plurality of distinct data processing circuits; and a data queue register file; a plurality of border cores, each border core of the plurality of border cores comprising: at least a register file, wherein: [i] at least a subset of the plurality of border cores encompasses a periphery of a first subset of the plurality of array cores; and [ii] a combination of the plurality of array cores and the plurality of border cores define an integrated circuit array.