- 专利标题: EFFICIENT AND SCALABLE MULTI-VALUE PROCESSOR AND SUPPORTING CIRCUITS
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申请号: US13280662申请日: 2011-10-25
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公开(公告)号: US20180357203A9公开(公告)日: 2018-12-13
- 发明人: Benjamin J. Cooper
- 申请人: Benjamin J. Cooper
- 主分类号: G06F15/80
- IPC分类号: G06F15/80 ; G06F7/49
摘要:
Briefly, an efficient and scalable processor device is disclosed that uses multi-value voltages for operands, results, and signaling. An array of cells is arranged in rows and columns, and one or more multi-value operands are used to select a cell from the array. A row driver may be used to select a row of cells, and a column driver is used to select a particular column from the selected row. Once a particular cell is selected, a voltage value associated with that cell is passed as an output, which is typically a multi-value result. The multi-value processor is constructed such that the row driver and column driver can be substantially identical, and have a structure that enables significant circuit reuse, provides substantial reduction in size for a circuit layout, has increased layout symmetry, simple scalability, and advantageous power conservation.