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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2021
Macronix International Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Wei-Chen Wang, Taipei, TW;
Ting-Hsuan Lo, Taipei, TW;
Chun-Feng Wu, Taoyuan, TW;
Yuan-Hao Chang, Taipei, TW;
Tei-Wei Kuo, Taipei, TW;
MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
Disclosed is a memory device and an operation method thereof. The operation method of memory device, comprising: programming a plurality of sub-matrices including at least one of non-zero element of a rearranged matrix to a plurality of operation units of the memory device; and programming a mapping table into a working memory of a memory device. The rearranged matrix is generated by rearrange a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows of an original matrix according to the positions of a plurality of non-zero elements of the original matrix. The mapping table comprises a correspondence of row indexes between the original matrix and the rearranged matrix, a correspondence of column indexes between the original matrix and the rearranged matrix and a correspondence between the sub-matrices including at least one non-zero element and the operation units storing the sub-matrices including at least one non-zero element.