Yozan Corporation

Sharp Corporation

Ezel Inc.

Weikang Yang

Makoto Yamamoto

Sunao Takatori

Guoliang Shou

Wiwat Wongwarawipat

Guoliang Shu

Ryohei Kumagai

Wiwat Wongwirawipat

Shou Guoliang

A scalar circuit includes serially connected inverters connected to one another via a plurality of connecting lines. A plurality of input lines are provided to the input of a first inverter in the serially connected inverters. A plurality of feedback lines are provided between the input and output of each inverter. A capacitance and a switch is provided in each connecting line, input line and feedback line. The switch connects a terminal of the capacitance to ground while simultaneously disconnecting the ends of that line from one another. The switches are cooperatively actuated so that the effective composite capacitance in the feedback lines and the connecting lines are substantially equal. In addition, the composite capacitance of in the input lines and the connecting lines are substantially equal.

Scaler circuit

A circuit for weighted addition which includes a transistor having a gate and a plurality of resistance elements. Each resistance element has a first and second end. The first end of each resistance element is impressed with a voltage, and the second end of each resistance element is connected to the gate of the transistor. The circuit is small in size and renders precise and various types of weighted addition possible.

Circuit for weighted addition

A filter device with memory test circuit easily executes a memory test inspite of single-bit data processing to 1 bit data. The filter device with a memory test circuit includes a memory test circuit between a memory means and a shift register, sequentially reads digital data and tests digital data at the external Central Processing Unit (CPU) after converting the data from parallel to serial at the shift register.

Filter device with memory test circuit

A sample and hold circuit to reduce hold error when analog data is held and transferred. The circuit includes a plurality of capacitors and inverters for guaranteeing level, selectively holds an input voltage at one capacitor by a first switching means, transfers charged voltage to a second capacitance by a second switching means and reduces data transfer time.

Sample hold circuit

A method for directly multiplying an analog and a digital data without converting from analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog. An analog input voltage is provided to a plurality of switches. A digital input voltage including bits b.sub.0 to b.sub.7 which are provided as control signals to the switches. The switch output is integrated giving weights by means of a capacitive coupling, and a sign bit is added by a capacitive coupling CP with a double weight of the most significant bit ('MSB') of the digital input.

Method of multiplying an analog value by a digital value

A large scale integrated neural device has a number of processor elements, each with a number of input lines and a single output line. The neural device also has a local bus with a number of conductors. Each conductor receives one of the output lines from each processor. Any input line of any processor element may be connected to any bus conductor through a switch element. Each processor element generates, as an output, an integrated result of weighted input signals. The switch element ON/OFF state may be programmed from external signals.

Neural device

A circuit calculating the minimum value comprising a plural number of pMOS, wherein source of the plural pMOS are connected to a power source with lower voltage than a drain, the drain is grounded through high resistance, in input voltage is connected to each pMOS, and a common output is connected to a drain of each pMOS.

Circuit for calculating the minimum value

A summing circuit for executing summing of analog data with sign. The summing circuit includes two serially connected inverters INV1 and INV2, each having a feed back line, and selectively inputs data D1 to D8 to one of the first or the second stages, corresponding to positive/negative sign signals S1 to S8.

Capacitive coupled summing circuit with signed output

A calculating circuit for outputting a maximum value based on a plurality of inputs. The circuit is comprised of a plurality of nMOS transistors connected in a parallel configuration.

Circuit for calculating a maximum value

A weighted summing circuit for minimizing bias voltage influence includes capacitive coupling and a closed loop inverter. The weighted summing circuit inputs the output of a capacitive coupling CP.sub.1 to serially connected first and second inverters INV.sub.1 and INV.sub.2, and includes grounded weighted capacitances C.sub.32 and C.sub.11, capacitance C.sub.21 connecting the first and the second inverters INV.sub.1 and INV.sub.2, and a capacitive coupling CP.sub.1 such that the closed loop gains of the first and second inverters INV.sub.1 and INV.sub.2 are substantially equal. The closed loop gains of the first and second inverters INV.sub.1 and INV.sub.2 are balanced.

Weighted summing circuit

The D/A converter comprises: a digital counter receiving a reference clock pluses and a reference voltage as a start signal so as to output a stop signal when the digital counter counts the reference clock pulses until a predetermined number; and a number is reached, and an RC circuit having a resister and a capacitor receiving the reference voltage so as to be charged by a predetermined time constant until the stop signal is inputted to the RC circuit, whereby the RC circuit is charged up to a voltage corresponding to a time distance between the start signal and the stop signal.

Digital-to-analog converter employing a common trigger and reference

A memory device for recording a time factor of data includes a threshold element, coupling capacitance, an RC-circuit, and a digital counter. A reference voltage is input to the RC-circuit. The output of the RC-circuit and an input voltage are each input to the coupling capacitance. The output of the coupling capacitance is input to the threshold element. When the voltage received by the threshold element reaches a threshold voltage level, the threshold element generates an output voltage. The digital counter receives the threshold element output voltage and the reference voltage. The digital counter is triggered by the reference voltage to begin counting clock pulses generated by a reference clock. The digital counter is then triggered by the threshold element output voltage to stop counting the clock pulses.

Memory device for recording a time factor

An interface circuit for reducing the number of data pins in an LSI circuit. The interface circuit, converts a multivalue input signal of a predetermined level into a binary value or converts a binary output signal into a multivalue of signal a predetermined level and is used as an interface for transferring data in LSI applications.

Interface circuit using a limited number of pins in LSI applications

A MOSFET wherein cell includes a MOSFET transistor having a gate connected to an input voltage signal for integration, a source grounded through a high resistance, and a drain connected to a power source. An output capacitor is connected to the source of the MOSFET transistor to complete the MOSFET cell.

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