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US08954363B2 Digital-to-analogue converter and neuromorphic circuit using such a converter
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使用这种转换器的数模转换器和神经形态电路
- Patent Title: Digital-to-analogue converter and neuromorphic circuit using such a converter
- Patent Title (中): 使用这种转换器的数模转换器和神经形态电路
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Application No.: US13705031Application Date: 2012-12-04
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Publication No.: US08954363B2Publication Date: 2015-02-10
- Inventor: Rodolphe Heliot , Xavier Jehl , Marc Sanquer , Romain Wacquez
- Applicant: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
- Applicant Address: FR Paris
- Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
- Current Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
- Current Assignee Address: FR Paris
- Agency: Baker & Hostetler LLP
- Priority: FR1161145 20111205
- Main IPC: G06N3/04
- IPC: G06N3/04 ; H03M1/06 ; H03M1/10 ; G06N3/02 ; H03M1/80 ; G06N3/063 ; H03M1/74

Abstract:
A digital-to-analogue converter, with application to electronic circuits with neuromorphic architecture, comprises: transistors of identical nominal geometrical characteristics, but of dispersed current-voltage characteristics, wherein when a constant gate-source voltage is applied to the different transistors, a current varying as a function of the dispersion circulates in the transistor; a digital table receiving a digital word and having a selection output selecting, as a function of the word to be converted, a transistor or transistors supplying a current of desired value representing this word in analogue form. The look-up table is loaded as a function of real measured current-voltage characteristics of different transistors of the set, to establish a look-up between words and current values. The wide variability of characteristics of the transistors, notably their leakage current for a gate-source voltage below the switch-on threshold, allows finding combinations of leakage currents which are a good representation of words to be converted.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130144821A1 Digital-to-Analogue Converter and Neuromorphic Circuit Using Such a Converter Public/Granted day:2013-06-06
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