SEMICONDUCTOR COMPUTING UNIT
    3.
    发明公开
    SEMICONDUCTOR COMPUTING UNIT 审中-公开
    HALBLEITERRECHNER,统一性

    公开(公告)号:EP1118954A1

    公开(公告)日:2001-07-25

    申请号:EP99913706.0

    申请日:1999-04-19

    IPC分类号: G06G7/12

    CPC分类号: G06N3/063 G06N3/0635

    摘要: It is an object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor arithmetic unit which realizes a maximum or minimum value retrieval operation at high speed and with a high degree of accuracy used in a vector quantization processor composed of a binary-multivalue-analog merged operation processing circuit. In addition, it is another object to add a function for retrieving a vector with a distance of necessary order to the unit.
    The present invention is characterized in that, in a multi-loop circuit comprising an amplifying circuit group composed of a plurality of sets of first amplifiers with a floating gate to which first electrodes and a single second electrode are capacitively coupled with a predetermined ratio, a logical operation circuit to which output signals of the amplifying circuit group are inputted and which outputs a logical 0 or 1, and a second amplifying circuit to which an output signal of the logical operation circuit is inputted and whose output is distributed to all of the second electrodes of the amplifying circuit group, the second amplifying circuit includes an adjusting circuit which adjusts an output current driving ability and a controlling circuit which controls the adjustment with a predetermined regulation, and the adjustment of the controlling circuit is executed according to variation of the output of the logical operation circuit.

    摘要翻译: 本发明的目的是提供一种半导体运算单元,该半导体运算单元在由二进制多值模拟合并运算处理器构成的矢量量化处理器中以高速度和高精度地实现最大值或最小值检索操作 电路。 此外,另一个目的是添加用于检索具有必要顺序距离的向量到该单元的函数。 本发明的特征在于,在包括由具有浮置栅极的多组第一放大器组成的放大电路组的多回路电路中,第一电极和单个第二电极以预定比率电容耦合, 输入放大电路组的输出信号并输出​​逻辑0或1的逻辑运算电路,输入逻辑运算电路的输出信号的第2放大电路,其输出分配给第2 放大电路组的电极,第二放大电路包括调节输出电流驱动能力的调节电路和控制电路,控制电路以预定的调节进行调节,并且根据输出的变化执行控制电路的调整 的逻辑运算电路。