International Business Machines Corporation

Korea University Research and Business Foundation

Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Hyung-Min Lee

Seyoung Kim

Tayfun Gokmen

Paul Michael Solomon

Wooram Lee

Shu-Jen Han

John Ulrich Knickerbocker

Joon-Chul Goh

Kang-Wook Lee

Jeongmin Kim

Young-Soo Hwang

Seung Hun Choi

Minil Kang

Min-Seong Um

Wilfried Haensch

Bonghyun You

Bong Hyun You

Oh Jo Kwon

Jonathan E Proesel

Mounir Meghelli

Ohjo Kwon

Hyun Jun Park

Ki-Duk Kim

Minjae Kim

Hyun-Su Lee

Duckhoon Ro

Kyung-Soo Jeong

Provided is a neuromorphic circuit including an input module configured to generate an input voltage, an output module configured to measure a current transmitted from the input module and generate an output voltage, synapse modules configured to electrically connect the input module and the output module and determine a current to be transmitted to the output module and including a memory element to which a weight is assigned, and a crossing module configured to control a direction of current flowing through the synapse modules.

Neuromorphic circuit capable of setting negative weights and back propagation

A capacitor-less low dropout regulator includes: a capacitor-less dual feedback loop unit including a plurality of feedback resistors, an error amplifier, and a transconductance cell to form a main loop passing through the error amplifier and a sub-loop passing through the gm cell without passing through the error amplifier; a dynamic compensation unit connected to a first main pole located at an output of the error amplifier and a second main pole located at an output of the gm cell to provide dynamic frequency compensation using a Miller effect to the first main pole and the second main pole according to a load current of the capacitor-less dual feedback loop unit; and a load current measurement unit configured to measure a load current of a third main pole formed at a load of the dual feedback loop unit to provide the load current to the dynamic compensation unit.

Capacitor-less low dropout regulator using dual feedback loop structure

An error compensation circuit for analog capacitor memory circuits includes a first transistor and a second transistor with gates connected respectively to top and bottom of an analog memory capacitor to read a voltage charged in the analog memory capacitor; a first switch and a second switch connected respectively to the first transistor and the second transistor to select the voltage to read; a first capacitor and a second capacitor to charge an electric charge to compensate or refresh the analog memory capacitor according to on/off of the first switch and the second switch; and an input terminal connected to sources of the first transistor and the second transistor to apply the voltage to operate the circuit. Accordingly, it is possible to compensate for an unintended phenomenon of the analog capacitor memory or refresh a change in memory value caused by leakage.

Error compensation circuit for analog capacitor memory circuits

Provided is a back-data transmission circuit generating a sensing signal using an arbitrary sensor, generating an input signal by digitally converting the sensing signal, generating a modulation signal by performing a modulation operation when there is a change in the input signal, inducing the modulation signal and transmitting the modulation signal to the transmitting terminal, measuring an induction signal induced from a receiving terminal to the transmitting terminal, and generating an output signal by calculating a slope of a voltage change represented by the induction signal.

Back-data transmission circuit robust to load changes and method thereof

A processing unit, including a first circuit, and a first circuit element connected to the first circuit. The first circuit element is at least charged by the first circuit.

Circuit methodology for highly linear and symmetric resistive processing unit

A data driver includes a digital to analog converter, a buffer and a buffer controller. The digital to analog converter is configured to receive a data signal having a digital type and to convert the data signal into a data voltage having an analog type. The buffer is configured to buffer the data voltage and to output the data voltage. The buffer controller is configured to determine a parameter of the buffer based on previous line data of the data signal and present line data of the data signal.

Data driver, display apparatus including the same and method of driving display panel using the same

A device for low-power bidirectional wireless data telemetry includes: a coil unit configured to perform forward telemetry and back telemetry; a full-wave rectifier unit configured to convert an AC voltage into a DC voltage; a current modulator configured to change a magnetic field by altering a path of the AC current generated, when the back telemetry is performed; an energy storage configured to generate a reuse power using the AC current; and a LDO unit configured to generate a source voltage using the power output from the full-wave rectifier unit and the reuse power generated by the energy storage. Accordingly, since the back telemetry and the forward telemetry may be performed simultaneously and the wasted current is reused, the power required for back telemetry may be reduced.

Device and method for low-power bidirectional wireless data telemetry

A data driver includes a gamma voltage generator configured to generate gamma voltages based on a number of data bits of a pixel data; a first digital-to-analog block configured to generate a plurality of time-division gamma voltage signals respectively corresponding to a plurality of gamma voltage groups; a plurality of time-division gamma voltage line groups for transferring the plurality of time-division gamma voltage signals; a second digital-to-analog block configured to select a time-division gamma voltage signal among the time-division gamma voltage signals according to upper bits of the pixel data in each channel; a time-division gamma voltage select block configured to select a gamma voltage according to lower bits of the pixel data in each channel; and an output buffer block configured to output the selected gamma voltage in each channel.

Data driver and display device including a data driver

A processing unit, including a first circuit part, and a capacitor connected to the first circuit part. The capacitor is charged or discharged by the first circuit part.

A system, comprising: a memory that stores computer-executable components; a processor, operably coupled to the memory, that executes the computer-executable components stored in the memory, wherein the computer-executable components comprise: an expression component that expresses the read current range in an RPU as read current Iwmin and Iwmax, a constant current source component that generates a reference current I, a computing component that subtracts the reference current value within from the read current value to generate an active net current read value that is negative, positive or null; a weighting component that analyzes the active current value and assigns it to a negative, positive or null weight.

Circuit methodology for differential weight reading in resistive processing unit devices

A neural signal recording device includes a scan-mode circuit and a read-mode circuit. The scan-mode circuit detects neural spike activity within any M groups of electrodes selected from a total of N electrodes that are coupled to a brain. The read-mode circuit then records all neural spike signals present within any one of the M groups of electrodes where the neural spike activity is detected by the scan-mode circuit, whereby less than N electrodes are recorded at any one time by the neural signal recording device.

Neural spike scanning for high-density implantable neural recording systems

The present disclosure relates to a radiation-hardened analog-to-digital converter circuit and its digital signal calibration method capable of efficiently compensating for an external influence or a changed semiconductor element performance, and a recording medium for performing the method.

Radiation-hardened analog-to-digital converter circuit, digital signal calibration method thereof, and recording medium for performing the method

An apparatus includes one or more memories storing computer readable code and processor(s). The processor(s), in response to loading and executing the computer readable code, cause the apparatus to perform operations including receiving electrocardiogram data from an electrocardiogram sensor. The electrocardiogram data includes data from an electrocardiogram from a person. The operations also include receiving pulse wave data from one or more pulse wave pressure sensors. The pulse wave data includes data from one or more pulse waves from the person. The operations further include determining blood pressure using the electrocardiogram data or the pulse wave data from the chest and the pulse wave data from the wrist or finger, and outputting an indication of the blood pressure. Another apparatus uses pulse wave data from two pulse wave sensors (e.g., pulse wave pressure sensor(s) and/or PPG sensor(s)) and blood pressure determinations are made using these pulse wave data.

Wearable blood pressure monitoring system

A resistive processing unit (RPU) device includes a weight storage device to store a weight voltage which corresponds to a weight value of the RPU device, and a read transistor having a gate connected to the weight storage device, and first and second source/drain terminals connected to first and second control ports, respectively. A current source connected to the second source/drain terminal generates a fixed reference current. The read transistor generates a weight current in response to the weight voltage. A read current output from the second control port represents a signed weight value of the RPU device. A magnitude of the read current is equal to a difference between the weight current and the fixed reference current. The sign of the read current is positive when the weight current is greater than the fixed reference current, and negative when the weight current is less than the fixed reference current.

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Hyung-Min Lee