Abstract: Method and device relate to the fields of deep learning and artificial intelligence; the method may include: acquiring N operand sets, N is a positive integer greater than one, the N operand sets are all in a first data input format or all in a second data input format, the first data input format includes half-precision floating point data and char data, and the second data input format includes signed fixed point data and the char data; determining input data corresponding to each operand, and inputting the input data into a corresponding multiplier to obtain an output result, where different operands correspond to different multipliers respectively; and calculating a sum of the output results of the multipliers by one or more adders to obtain an operation result of the N-dot-product operation.

Abstract: A neural network processing method, a neural network processing unit (NPU) and a processing device are provided. The method includes: obtaining by a quantizing unit in the NPU float type input data, quantizing the float type input data to obtain quantized input data, and providing the quantized input data to an operation unit; performing by the operation unit of the NPU a matrix-vector operation and/or a convolution operation to the quantized input data to obtain an operation result of the quantized input data; and performing by the quantizing unit inverse quantization to the operation result output by the operation unit to obtain an inverse quantization result.

Abstract: A lighting system and a method are provided with an adaptive power balancing scheme which reduces or eliminates flicker by sensing the operation of a lamp that is connected to an electronic transformer and adaptively controlling the drive circuit of the lamp to prevent unexpected reset of the electronic transformer. There is provided a lamp with a light source and a drive circuit for the light source; said drive circuit has a power stage for regulating a voltage supplied to the light source, an energy storage device, and control means arranged to selectively disable the power stage. Power is provided to the light source by the energy storage device when the power stage is disabled.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for multiply-add operations for a neural network. The method includes: determining types of respective pieces of data to be calculated based on a multiply-add operation request; in a condition of the type of each piece of the data to be calculated is a type of single-precision floating point, compressing mantissa of each pieces of the data to be calculated to obtain each compressed mantissa; splitting each compressed mantissa according to a preset rule and determining high digits and low digits of the compressed mantissa; and performing a multiply-add operation on each compressed mantissa based on the high digits and low digits of the compressed mantissa.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided that includes an integrated circuit (IC) configured to regulate an output voltage for powering a light emitting diode (LED). A first transistor is configured to be switched on or off by the IC to inductively couple or decouple a main power supply bus voltage from a primary winding of a transformer to a secondary winding of the transformer connectable to the LED. A second transistor is coupled between the IC and the main power supply bus voltage, and configured to be switched on or off by the IC to selectively provide an IC power supply input voltage to the IC.

Abstract: An electronic that includes an integrated circuit (IC) configured to regulate an output voltage for powering a light emitting diode (LED). A first transistor is configured to be switched on or off by the IC to inductively couple or decouple a main power supply bus voltage from a primary winding of a transformer to a secondary winding of the transformer connectable to the LED. A second transistor is coupled between the IC and the main power supply bus voltage, and configured to be switched on or off by the IC to selectively provide an IC power supply input voltage to the IC.

Abstract: An electronic that includes an integrated circuit (IC) configured to regulate an output voltage for powering a light emitting diode (LED). A first transistor is configured to be switched on or off by the IC to inductively couple or decouple a main power supply bus voltage from a primary winding of a transformer to a secondary winding of the transformer connectable to the LED. A second transistor is coupled between the IC and the main power supply bus voltage, and configured to be switched on or off by the IC to selectively provide an IC power supply input voltage to the IC.

Abstract: A lighting system and a method are provided with an adaptive power balancing scheme which reduces or eliminates flicker by sensing the operation of a lamp that is connected to an electronic transformer and adaptively controlling the drive circuit of the lamp to prevent unexpected reset of the electronic transformer. There is provided a lamp with a light source and a drive circuit for the light source; said drive circuit has a power stage for regulating a voltage supplied to the light source, an energy storage device, and control means arranged to selectively disable the power stage. Power is provided to the light source by the energy storage device when the power stage is disabled.