- Patent Title: Power efficient near memory analog multiply-and-accumulate (MAC)
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Application No.: US16721819Application Date: 2019-12-19
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Publication No.: US11574173B2Publication Date: 2023-02-07
- Inventor: Ankit Srivastava
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Qualcomm Incorporated
- Main IPC: G06N3/08
- IPC: G06N3/08 ; G06N3/04 ; G11C11/412 ; G06N3/063 ; G06F7/544 ; G11C11/418 ; G11C11/419

Abstract:
A near memory system is provided for the calculation of a layer in a machine learning application. The near memory system includes an array of memory cells for storing an array of filter weights. A multiply-and-accumulate circuit couples to columns of the array to form the calculation of the layer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210192324A1 POWER EFFICIENT NEAR MEMORY ANALOG MULTIPLY-AND-ACCUMULATE (MAC) Public/Granted day:2021-06-24
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