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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2017
Regents of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Marcus Riedel, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Devon Jenson, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Regents of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
In some examples, a device includes an integrated circuit comprising a computational unit configured to process at least two input bit streams that each include a sequential set of data bits or two or more sets of data bits in parallel that is deterministically encoded to represent numerical values based on a probability that any data bit in the bit stream is high. In some examples, the computational unit includes a convolver configured to generate pair-wise bit combinations of the data bits of the input bit streams. In some examples, e computational unit further includes a stochastic computational unit configured to perform a computational operation on the pair-wise bit combinations and produce an output bit stream having a set of data bits indicating a result of the computational operation based on a probability that any data bit in the set of data bits of the output bit stream is high.