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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. 01, 2024

Filed:

Jul. 14, 2021
Applicant:

Macronix International Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;

Inventors:

Han-Wen Hu, Tainan, TW;

Yung-Chun Lee, New Taipei, TW;

Bo-Rong Lin, Taichung, TW;

Huai-Mu Wang, New Taipei, TW;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06J 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/544 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/5443 (2013.01); G06J 1/00 (2013.01); Y02D 10/00 (2018.01);
Abstract

A memory device and an operation method thereof are provided. The memory device includes: a memory array including a plurality of memory cells for storing a plurality of weights; a multiplication circuit for performing bitwise multiplication on a plurality of input data and the weights to generate a plurality of multiplication results, wherein in performing bitwise multiplication, the memory cells generate a plurality of memory cell currents; a digital accumulating circuit for performing a digital accumulating on the multiplication results; an analog accumulating circuit for performing an analog accumulating on the memory cell currents to generate a first MAC operation result; and a decision unit for deciding whether to perform the analog accumulating, the digital accumulating or a hybrid accumulating, wherein in performing the hybrid accumulating, whether the digital accumulating circuit is triggered is based on the first MAC operation result.


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