Deep Learning Accelerators (NCE)

The Neural Compute Engine (NCE) is a hardware accelerator for Deep Neural Network (DNN) workloads. It features a highly configurable pipeline for maximum support of DNN operations, such as Long Short-Term memory (LSTM) and Local Response Norm (LRN). It also leverages sparsity and low precision for optimal performance.

The Neural Compute Engine is built from one Neural Compute Tile, tile is a primary unit of computing.

For hardware assisted task synchronization, the NCE Subsystem provides barriers and workload FIFOs. Barriers remove as much software overhead as possible through ISR loops and programming sequences to keep the compute and data-movement pipelines full.