Invention Application
- Patent Title: Compute-In-Memory-Based Floating-Point Processor
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Application No.: US17825036Application Date: 2022-05-26
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Publication No.: US20230133360A1Publication Date: 2023-05-04
- Inventor: Rawan Naous , Kerem Akarvardar , Mahmut Sinangil , Yu-Der Chih , Saman Adham , Nail Etkin Can Akkaya , Hidehiro Fujiwara , Yih Wang , Jonathan Tsung-Yung Chang
- Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu
- Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu
- Main IPC: G06F9/30
- IPC: G06F9/30 ; G06F9/355

Abstract:
Systems and methods for floating-point processors and methods for operating floating-point processors are provided. A floating-point processor includes a quantizer, a compute-in-memory device, and a decoder. The floating-processor is configured to receive an input array in which the values of the input array are represented in floating-point format. The floating-point processor may be configured to convert the floating-point numbers into integer format so that multiply-accumulate operations can be performed on the numbers. The multiply-accumulate operations generate partial sums, which are in integer format. The partial sums can be accumulated until a full sum is achieved, wherein the full sum can then be converted to floating-point format.
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