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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2022
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, TW;
Meng-Fan Chang, Hsinchu, TW;
Ping-Chun Wu, Hsinchu, TW;
Jin-Sheng Ren, Hsinchu, TW;
Li-Yang Hong, Hsinchu, TW;
Ho-Yu Chen, Hsinchu, TW;
NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A floating point pre-alignment structure for computing-in-memory applications includes a time domain exponent computing block and an input mantissa pre-align block. The time domain exponent computing block is configured to compute a plurality of original input exponents and a plurality of original weight exponents to generate a plurality of flags. Each of the flags is determined by adding one of the original input exponents and one of the original weight exponents. The input mantissa pre-align block is configured to receive a plurality of original input mantissas and shift the original input mantissas according to the flags to generate a plurality of weighted input mantissas, and sparsity of the weighted input mantissas is greater than sparsity of the original input mantissas. Each of the flags has a negative correlation with a sum of the one of the original input exponents and the one of the original weight exponents.