diff --git a/src/runtime/NEON/functions/NEFullyConnectedLayer.cpp b/src/runtime/NEON/functions/NEFullyConnectedLayer.cpp
index 4c264e4..92ccd5d 100644
--- a/src/runtime/NEON/functions/NEFullyConnectedLayer.cpp
+++ b/src/runtime/NEON/functions/NEFullyConnectedLayer.cpp
@@ -141,9 +141,8 @@
 void NEFullyConnectedLayer::configure(const ITensor *input, const ITensor *weights, const ITensor *biases, ITensor *output,
                                       FullyConnectedLayerInfo fc_info)
 {
-    ARM_COMPUTE_ERROR_ON_NULLPTR(input, weights, output);
-
     // Perform validate step
+    ARM_COMPUTE_ERROR_ON_NULLPTR(input, weights, output);
     ARM_COMPUTE_ERROR_THROW_ON(NEFullyConnectedLayer::validate(input->info(),
                                                                weights->info(),
                                                                biases != nullptr ? biases->info() : nullptr,
@@ -260,7 +259,13 @@
         int32_t output_multiplier;
         int32_t output_shift;
         quantization::calculate_quantized_multiplier(multiplier, &output_multiplier, &output_shift);
-        _gemmlowp_output_stage.configure(&_gemmlowp_output, biases, output, output_multiplier, output_shift, oq_info.offset);
+
+        GEMMLowpOutputStageInfo gemmlowp_output_stage_info;
+        gemmlowp_output_stage_info.gemmlowp_multiplier = output_multiplier;
+        gemmlowp_output_stage_info.gemmlowp_shift      = output_shift;
+        gemmlowp_output_stage_info.gemmlowp_offset     = oq_info.offset;
+        gemmlowp_output_stage_info.type                = GEMMLowpOutputStageType::QUANTIZE_DOWN_FIXEDPOINT;
+        _gemmlowp_output_stage.configure(&_gemmlowp_output, biases, output, gemmlowp_output_stage_info);
         _gemmlowp_output.allocator()->allocate();
     }
 
@@ -272,7 +277,7 @@
 {
     ARM_COMPUTE_UNUSED(fc_info.retain_internal_weights);
     ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON_NULLPTR(input, weights, output);
-    ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON_DATA_TYPE_CHANNEL_NOT_IN(input, 1, DataType::QASYMM8, DataType::F16, DataType::F32);
+    ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON_DATA_TYPE_CHANNEL_NOT_IN(input, 1, DataType::QASYMM8, DataType::QASYMM8_SIGNED, DataType::F16, DataType::F32);
     ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON_MISMATCHING_DATA_TYPES(input, weights, output);
     ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ERROR_ON(weights->num_dimensions() > 2);
 
@@ -361,7 +366,13 @@
         int32_t output_multiplier;
         int32_t output_shift;
         ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ON_ERROR(quantization::calculate_quantized_multiplier(multiplier, &output_multiplier, &output_shift));
-        ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ON_ERROR(NEGEMMLowpQuantizeDownInt32ToUint8ScaleByFixedPoint::validate(&gemmlowp_output, biases, output));
+
+        GEMMLowpOutputStageInfo gemmlowp_output_stage_info;
+        gemmlowp_output_stage_info.gemmlowp_multiplier = output_multiplier;
+        gemmlowp_output_stage_info.gemmlowp_shift      = output_shift;
+        gemmlowp_output_stage_info.gemmlowp_offset     = oq_info.offset;
+        gemmlowp_output_stage_info.type                = GEMMLowpOutputStageType::QUANTIZE_DOWN_FIXEDPOINT;
+        ARM_COMPUTE_RETURN_ON_ERROR(NEGEMMLowpOutputStage::validate(&gemmlowp_output, biases, output, gemmlowp_output_stage_info));
     }
 
     return Status{};