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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2017
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Shubham Jain, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Ashish Ranjan, Lafayette, IN (US);
Kaushik Roy, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Anand Raghunathan, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Abstract
A memory capable of carrying out compute-in-memory (CiM) operations is disclosed. The memory includes a matrix of bit cells having a plurality of bit cells along one or more rows and a plurality of bit cells along one or more columns, each bit cell having a value stored therein, an address decoder configured to receive addresses and activate two or more of the rows associated with the addresses, and a sensing circuit coupled to each column of bit cells, and configured to provide two or more outputs, wherein each output is associated with at least one compute operation performed on values stored in the bit cells in the column.