Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Field-programmable crossbar array for reconfigurable computing
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Application No.: US15723668Application Date: 2017-10-03
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Publication No.: US10346347B2Publication Date: 2019-07-09
- Inventor: Wei Lu , Mohammed A. Zidan
- Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
- Main IPC: G11C11/00
- IPC: G11C11/00 ; G06F15/78 ; G11C13/00 ; H03K19/177 ; G11C7/10

Abstract:
For decades, advances in electronics were directly related to the scaling of CMOS transistors according to Moore's law. However, both the CMOS scaling and the classical computer architecture are approaching fundamental and practical limits. A novel memory-centric, reconfigurable, general purpose computing platform is proposed to handle the explosive amount of data in a fast and energy-efficient manner. The proposed computing architecture is based on a single physical resistive memory-centric fabric that can be optimally reconfigured and utilized to perform different computing and data storage tasks in a massively parallel approach. The system can be tailored to achieve maximal energy efficiency based on the data flow by dynamically allocating the basic computing fabric to storage, arithmetic, and analog computing including neuromorphic computing tasks.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180095930A1 Field-Programmable Crossbar Array For Reconfigurable Computing Public/Granted day:2018-04-05
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