Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Arithmetic apparatus and multiply-accumulate system
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Application No.: US17426078Application Date: 2020-01-27
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Publication No.: US11941370B2Publication Date: 2024-03-26
- Inventor: Hiroshi Yoshida
- Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
- Priority: JP 19018103 2019.02.04
- International Application: PCT/JP2020/002669 2020.01.27
- International Announcement: WO2020/162241A 2020.08.13
- Date entered country: 2021-07-27
- Main IPC: G06F7/523
- IPC: G06F7/523 ; G06F7/50 ; G06F17/14 ; G06G7/16 ; G06N3/063

Abstract:
An arithmetic apparatus includes input lines and multiply-accumulate devices. An electrical signal for an input value is input into each of the input lines. Multiplication units include a positive weight multiplication unit that generates a positive weight charge for a product value obtained by multiplying the input value by a positive weight value and/or a negative weight multiplication unit that generates a negative weight charge for a product value obtained by multiplying the input value by a negative weight value. An output unit of the multiply-accumulate device includes an accumulation unit that accumulates the positive weight charge and the negative weight charge, generates a voltage signal representing a sum of the product values by a voltage on the basis of the voltage of the accumulation unit, and outputs the multiply-accumulate signal on the basis of the voltage signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220100470A1 ARITHMETIC APPARATUS AND MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2022-03-31
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