US 11,669,720 B2
Storage device and method of operating the same
Sungroh Yoon, Seoul (KR); Hyeokjun Choe, Seoul (KR); Seongsik Park, Seoul (KR); and Seijoon Kim, Seongnam-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR); and SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION, Seoul (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Apr. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/230,331.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0117046 (KR), filed on Sep. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0083847 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G06N 3/063 (2023.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 12/10 (2016.01)
CPC G06N 3/063 (2013.01) [G06F 9/5016 (2013.01); G06F 9/5061 (2013.01); G06F 12/10 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method of operating a storage device comprising a neural network processor, the method comprising:
outputting, by a controller device, a signal instructing the neural network processor to perform a neural network operation based on a command from a host device;
requesting, by the neural network processor, target model data and instruction data from a memory device storing the target model data and the instruction data based on the signal, the target model data corresponding to parameters of a target model and the instruction data for performing the neural network operation based on the target model;
receiving, by the neural network processor, the target model data and the instruction data from the memory device; and
outputting, by the neural network processor, inference data based on the target model data and the instruction data.