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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2008
Tetsushi Koide, Higashihiroshima, JP;
Hans Jurgen Mattausch, Higashihiroshima, JP;
Takashi Morimoto, Higashihiroshima, JP;
Youmei Harada, Higashihiroshima, JP;
Tetsushi Koide, Higashihiroshima, JP;
Hans Jurgen Mattausch, Higashihiroshima, JP;
Takashi Morimoto, Higashihiroshima, JP;
Youmei Harada, Higashihiroshima, JP;
Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima-shi, JP;
Abstract
In a boundary active only scheme proposed by the present invention, only a cell in a boundary of region growth is brought into an active mode, and the other cells are brought into a standby mode. The respective cells perform state transition in parallel, and decision of the state transition performed for each clock cycle is not performed in a case where any of the three conditions that none of the adjacent cells is ignited, the cell itself is already ignited, and the cell already belongs to a certain divided region is satisfied. Therefore the number of simultaneously operating cells and that of coupling weight registers are minimized, and control is automatically executed to reduce power consumption.