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Please predict whether this patent is acceptable.PATENT ABSTRACT: A method for providing input data for a layer of a convolutional neural network “CNN”, the method comprising: receiving input data comprising input data values to be processed in a layer of the CNN; determining addresses in banked memory of a buffer in which the received data values are to be stored based upon format data indicating a format parameter of the input data in the layer and indicating a format parameter of a filter which is to be used to process the input data in the layer; and storing the received input data values at the determined addresses in the buffer for retrieval for processing in the layer.