Semiconductor circuit using feedback to latch multilevel data
AssigneesTadahiro Ohmi, Tadashi Shibata
InventorsTadashi Shibata, Tadahiro Ohmi, Takeo Yamashita
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Abstract
A simple semiconductor circuit by which analog data or multilevel data can be fetched and stored. The circuit receives a first signal and converts the first signal into a second signal composed of multilevel. The second signal is fed back to the circuit. The circuit is constituted of a first circuit which converts the first signal into a signal group composed of multiple quantized signals and second circuit which converts the signal group into the second signal. In addition, the first or/and second circuits are constituted of one or more neuron MOS transistors.
Claims12
A semiconductor circuit, comprising:
- a first circuit having an input and an output, said first circuit being responsive to a first signal applied to said input for generating at said output a signal group comprising at least one quantizing signal representing a quantization of said first signal;
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- a second circuit having an input and an output, said second circuit being responsive to said signal group generated by said first circuit for producing a second signal comprising a multilevel signal in accordance with the respective quantization values of said at least one quantizing signal and providing said second signal at the output of said second circuit;
- wherein the output of said second circuit is selectively coupled to the input of said first circuit.
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