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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2021
Macronix International Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Han-Wen Hu, Tainan, TW;
Yung-Chun Li, New Taipei, TW;
Bo-Rong Lin, Taichung, TW;
Huai-Mu Wang, New Taipei, TW;
MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A memory device and an operation method thereof are provided. The memory device includes: a plurality of page buffers, storing an input data; a plurality of memory planes coupled to the page buffers, based on received addresses of the memory planes, a plurality of weights stored in the memory planes, the memory planes performing bit multiplication on the weights and the input data in the page buffers in parallel to generate a plurality of bit multiplication results in parallel, the bit multiplication results stored back to the page buffers; and at least one accumulation circuit coupled to the page buffers, for performing bit accumulation on the bit multiplication results of the memory planes in parallel or in sequential to generate a multiply-accumulate (MAC) operation result.