Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

Infineon Technologies LLC

Venkataraman Prabhakar

Krishnaswamy Ramkumar

Ravindra Manohar Kapre

Long Hinh

Vineet Agrawal

Santanu Kumar Samanta

Swatilekha Saha

Michael Amundson

A semiconductor inference device that has a non-volatile memory (NVM) array including NVM cells arranged in rows and columns, in which each NVM cell comprises a charge trapping transistor configured to store one of N&#xd7;analog values corresponding to N&#xd7;levels of its drain current (ID) or threshold voltage (VT) levels, representing N&#xd7;weight values for multiply accumulate (MAC) operations. The semiconductor inference device also includes digital-to-analog (DAC) function and multiplexor (mux) function configured to generate an analog MAC result based on the digital inputs converted results and the weight values read results, and analog-to-digital (ADC) function configured to convert the analog MAC result of the mux function to a digital value. Other embodiments of the semiconductor inference device and related methods and systems are also disclosed.

Silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon based multi-level non-volatile memory device and methods of operation thereof

A semiconductor device that has a semiconductor-oxide-nitride-oxide-semiconductor (SONOS) based non-volatile memory (NVM) array including NVM cells arranged in rows and columns, in which NVM transistors of the NVM cells are configured to store N&#xd7;analog values corresponding to the N&#xd7;levels of their drain current (I) or threshold voltage (V) levels, digital-to-analog (DAC) function that receives and converts digital signals from external devices, column multiplexor (mux) function that is configured to select and combine the analog value read from the NVM cells, and analog-to-digital (ADC) function that is configured to convert analog results of the column mux function to digital values and output the digital values.

Silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon based multi level non-volatile memory device and methods of operation thereof

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