Integrated cellular network structure that is programmable for solving differential equations
AssigneeSTMicroelectronics S.r.l.
InventorsPaolo Arena, Luigi Occhipinti, Marco Branciforte, Giovanni Di Bernardo
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Abstract
An integrated cellular network structure that is programmable to solve partial derivative differential equations in order to control a phenomenon of diffusion or a propagation of electric drive pulses for robot actuators. Such structure includes analog and digital portions interconnected with each other; the analog portion having a matrix array of analog cells arranged to receive data from an I/O interface, and the digital portion having first and second memory arrays for storing a desired configuration and the initial state of such analog matrix array, respectively.
Claims15
An integrated cellular network structure that is programmable to solve partial derivative differential equations in order to control a phenomenon of diffusion or a propagation of electric drive pulses for robot actuators, comprising analog and digital portions interconnected to each other, said analog portion including a matrix array of analog cells arranged to receive data from an input/output interface, and said digital portion comprising a first and a second memory matrix arrays arranged to store a desired configuration and the initial state, respectively, of said analog matrix array.
An integrated cellular network structure programmable to solve partial derivative differential equations for controlling diffusion and propagation of electric drive pulses for robotic actuators, the structure comprising:
- an analog circuit having a matrix array of analof cells configured to receive data from an input/output interface;
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- a digital circuit comprising a first memory matrix array configured to store a desired configuration of the matrix array of the analog circuit and a second memory matrix array configured to store an initial state of the matrix array of the analog circuit.
An integrated cellular network structure programmable to solve partial derivative differential equations in order to control diffusion and propagation of electric drive pulses for robotic actuators, the structure comprising:
- an analog circuit comprising a matrix array of two-layer analog cells configured to receive data from an input/output interface, each two-layer cell comprising a block having a variable time constant for individually modifying a frequency of each analog two-layer cell;
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- a digital circuit comprising a first memory matrix array configured to store a desired configuration of the matrix array of the analog circuit and a second memory matrix array configured to store an initial state of the matrix array of the analog circuit.
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