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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2020
Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
The Texas A&m University System, College Station, TX (US);
Sarma Vrudhula, Chandler, AZ (US);
Sunil Khatri, College Station, TX (US);
Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
The Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX (US);
Abstract
Threshold logic gates using flash transistors are provided. In an exemplary aspect, flash threshold logic (FTL) provides a novel circuit topology for realizing complex threshold functions. FTL cells use floating gate (flash) transistors to realize all threshold functions of a given number of variables. The use of flash transistors in the FTL cell allows a fine-grained selection of weights, which is not possible in traditional complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-based threshold logic cells. Further examples include a novel approach for programming the weights of an FTL cell for a specified threshold function using a modified perceptron learning algorithm.