General Purpose Neural Processor

Patent №

US 11,640,524

Granted

2023-05-02

Filed 2021

Owner

GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AS REPRESENTED BY THE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY

Lab

AI components

2

ml · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17459079

A computer processor includes an on-chip network and a plurality of tiles. Each tile includes an input circuit to receive a voltage signal from the network, and a crossbar array, including at least one neuron. The neuron includes first and second bit lines, a programmable resistor connecting the voltage signal to the first bit line, and a comparator to receive inputs from the two bit lines and to output a voltage, when a bypass condition is not active. Each tile includes a programming circuit to set a resistance value of the resistor, a pass-through circuit to provide the voltage signal to an input circuit of a first additional tile, when a pass-through condition is active, a bypass circuit to provide values of the bit lines to a second additional tile, when the bypass condition is active; and at least one output circuit to provide an output signal to the network.

Machine learningAI hardwareG06N 3/065G06N 3/045G06N 3/0499G06N 3/084G06N 3/09G11C 11/54G11C 13/0026G11C 13/0069+3 more

AI classification

Machine learning1.00
AI hardware1.00
Vision0.04
Evolutionary computation0.03
Knowledge representation0.02
Speech0.00
Natural language0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AS REPRESENTED BY THE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY

assignment · 629900537

Assignors

MOUNTAIN, DAVID J., DR.

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