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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 07, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Konstantinos Bekas, Horgen, CH;

Alessandro Curioni, Gattikon, CH;

Evangelos S. Eleftheriou, Rueschlikon, CH;

Manuel Le Gallo-Bourdeau, Zurich, CH;

Abu Sebastian, Adliswil, CH;

Tomas Tuma, Adliswil, CH;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/38 (2006.01); G06F 7/483 (2006.01); G06F 17/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/483 (2013.01); G06F 17/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computing system includes computational memory and digital combinational circuitry operatively coupled with the computational memory. The computational memory is configured to perform computations at a prescribed precision. The digital combinational circuitry is configured to increase the precision of the computations performed by the computational memory. The computational memory and the digital combinational circuitry may be configured to iteratively perform a computation to a predefined precision. The computational memory may include circuitry configured to perform analog computation using values stored in the computational memory, and the digital combinational circuitry may include a central processing unit, a graphics processing unit and/or application specific circuitry. The computational memory may include an array of resistive memory elements having resistance or conductance values stored therein, the respective resistance or conductance values being programmable.


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