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US 11,055,062 B1Granted
Switched capacitor vector-matrix multiplier
AssigneeAreanna Inc.
InventorBehdad Youssefi
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Abstract
Methods and apparatuses enable a general-purpose low power analog vector-matrix multiplier. A switched capacitor matrix multiplier may comprise a plurality of successive approximate registers (SAR) operating in parallel, each SAR having a SAR digital output; and a plurality of Analog Multiply-and-Accumulate (MAC) units for multiplying and accumulating and scaling bit-wise products of a digital weight matrix with a digital input vector, wherein each MAC unit is connected in series to a SAR of the plurality of SARs.
Claims9
A switched capacitor matrix multiplier, comprising:
- a plurality of successive approximation registers (SAR) operating in parallel, each SAR of the plurality of SARs having a SAR digital output;
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- a plurality of analog Multiply-and-Accumulate (MAC) units for multiplying and accumulating and scaling bit-wise products of a digital weight matrix with a digital input vector, wherein each analog MAC unit of the plurality of analog MAC units is connected in series to a SAR of the plurality of SARs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.