Systems and methods for implementing a feedback-informed memory programming of an integrated circuit

A method of programming an analog memory array comprising a plurality of memory cells, the method comprising:

• initializing at least one memory cell of the analog memory array to an arbitrary weight value based on an application of one or more initialization pulses to the at least one memory cell;
• estimating a weight state of the at least one memory cell based on digitized outputs generated from an analog read operation, via an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), of the at least one NVM cell, wherein the digitized outputs represent a quantized version of an analog response of the at least one NVM cell;
• computing a weight error vector based on a difference between the estimated weight state and a target weight for the at least one memory cell;
• computing, based on the weight error vector, an initial set of programming pulses that drive the at least one memory cell to the target weight;
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• programming the at least one memory cell by applying the initial set of programming pulses to the at least one memory cell of the memory array to drive the at least one memory cell to the target weight.

A method of programming a memory array, the method comprising:

• estimating a weight state of at least one memory cell of the memory array based on digitized outputs generated from an analog read operation, via an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), of the at least one NVM cell, wherein the digitized outputs represent a quantized version of an analog response of the at least one NVM cell;
• computing a weight error vector based on a difference between the estimated weight state and a target weight for the at least one memory cell;
• computing, based on the weight error vector, a set of programming pulses that drive the at least one memory cell to the target weight;
• and
• programming the at least one memory cell by applying the set of programming pulses to the at least one memory cell of the memory array to drive the at least one memory cell to the target weight.