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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2015
Applicant:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Takuya Okuyama, Tokyo, JP;
Masanao Yamaoka, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 19/23 (2006.01); G06F 17/10 (2006.01); G06F 7/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/10 (2013.01); G06F 7/38 (2013.01); H03K 19/23 (2013.01);
Abstract
An object of the invention is to provide a majority circuit which may be manufactured cheaply and easily and may process necessary majority functions for calculation in an interaction model. The majority circuit according to the invention simplifies the processing of the majority function by using a bitonic sort circuit to round the sum of input signals to a power of 2.