Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reconfigurable input precision in-memory computing
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Application No.: US16850395Application Date: 2020-04-16
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Publication No.: US11556311B2Publication Date: 2023-01-17
- Inventor: Wen Ma , Pi-Feng Chiu , Won Ho Choi , Martin Lueker-Boden
- Applicant: SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Applicant Address: US TX Addison
- Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Current Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Addison
- Agency: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP
- Main IPC: G06F7/52
- IPC: G06F7/52 ; G06F7/523 ; G11C13/00 ; G06N3/04

Abstract:
Technology for reconfigurable input precision in-memory computing is disclosed herein. Reconfigurable input precision allows the bit resolution of input data to be changed to meet the requirements of in-memory computing operations. Voltage sources (that may include DACs) provide voltages that represent input data to memory cell nodes. The resolution of the voltage sources may be reconfigured to change the precision of the input data. In one parallel mode, the number of DACs in a DAC node is used to configure the resolution. In one serial mode, the number of cycles over which a DAC provides voltages is used to configure the resolution. The memory system may include relatively low resolution voltage sources, which avoids the need to have complex high resolution voltage sources (e.g., high resolution DACs). Lower resolution voltage sources can take up less area and/or use less power than higher resolution voltage sources.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210326110A1 RECONFIGURABLE INPUT PRECISION IN-MEMORY COMPUTING Public/Granted day:2021-10-21
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