NEURAL NETWORK EMPLOYING ABSOLUTE VALUE CALCULATING SYNAPSE

A neural network employing absolute difference calculating synapse cells comprising a pair of floating gate devices coupled in parallel between an internal cell node and column line of the network. The network further includes a switched-capacitor circuit for summing all of the charges generated by all of the synapse cells within a column of the network. The circuit operates in response to a sequence of applied voltage pulses such that each cell generates a charge representing either the input, the weight, or the minimum/maximum of either the weight or the input. The accumulation of these charges represents the sum of the absolute value difference between the input voltages and the stored weights for a single column of the array.