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- Patent Title: High-energy-efficiency binary neural network accelerator applicable to artificial intelligence internet of things
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Application No.: US18098746Application Date: 2023-01-19
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Publication No.: US11762700B2Publication Date: 2023-09-19
- Inventor: Hongtu Zhang , Yuhao Shu , Yajun Ha
- Applicant: SHANGHAITECH UNIVERSITY
- Applicant Address: CN Shanghai
- Assignee: SHANGHAITECH UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee: SHANGHAITECH UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee Address: CN Shanghai
- Agency: Bayramoglu Law Offices LLC
- Priority: CN 2111169933.X 2021.10.08
- Main IPC: G06F9/50
- IPC: G06F9/50 ; G06F7/50 ; G06F7/523 ; H03K19/21

Abstract:
A high-energy-efficiency binary neural network accelerator applicable to artificial intelligence Internet of Things is provided. 0.3-0.6V sub/near threshold 10T1C multiplication bit units with series capacitors are configured for charge domain binary convolution. An anti-process deviation differential voltage amplification array between bit lines and DACs is configured for robust pre-amplification in 0.3V batch standardized operations. A lazy bit line reset scheme further reduces energy, and inference accuracy losses can be ignored. Therefore, a binary neural network accelerator chip based on in-memory computation achieves peak energy efficiency of 18.5 POPS/W and 6.06 POPS/W, which are respectively improved by 21× and 135× compared with previous macro and system work [9, 11].
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