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公开(公告)号:US10332588B2
公开(公告)日:2019-06-25
申请号:US15851531
申请日:2017-12-21
Applicant: IMEC VZW , Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Inventor: Trong Huynh Bao , Julien Ryckaert , Praveen Raghavan , Pieter Weckx
IPC: G11C11/412 , H01L27/11 , H01L29/423 , G11C11/408 , H01L29/08 , H01L27/06 , H01L29/06
Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosed technology, a SRAM device includes a first stack of transistors and a second stack of transistors arranged on a substrate. Each of the first and second stacks includes a pull-up transistor, a pull-down transistor and a pass transistor, where each of the transistors includes a horizontally extending channel. In each of the first and second stacks, the pull-up transistor and the pull-down transistor have a common gate electrode extending vertically therebetween, and the pass transistor has a gate electrode separated from the common gate electrode. A source/drain of each of the pull-up transistor and the pull-down transistor and a source/drain of the pass transistor included in one of the first stack and the second stack are electrically interconnected with the common gate electrode of the pull-up transistor and the pull-down transistor included in the other of the first stack and the second stack.
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公开(公告)号:US20180174642A1
公开(公告)日:2018-06-21
申请号:US15851531
申请日:2017-12-21
Applicant: IMEC VZW , Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Inventor: Trong Huynh Bao , Julien Ryckaert , Praveen Raghavan , Pieter Weckx
IPC: G11C11/412 , H01L27/11 , G11C11/408 , H01L29/08 , H01L29/423
CPC classification number: G11C11/412 , G11C11/4085 , H01L27/0688 , H01L27/1104 , H01L27/1116 , H01L29/0673 , H01L29/0847 , H01L29/42392
Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to semiconductor memory devices, and more particularly to a static random access memory (SRAM) device. One aspect of the disclosed technology is a bit cell for a static random access memory (SRAM) comprising: a first and a second vertical stack of transistors arranged on a substrate. Each stack includes a pull-up transistor, a pull-down transistor and a pass transistor, each transistor including a horizontally extending channel, the pull-up transistor and the pull-down transistor having a common gate electrode extending vertically between the pull-up transistor and the pull-down transistor and the pass transistor having a gate electrode being separate from the common gate electrode. A source/drain of the pull-up transistor and of the pull-down transistor of the first stack, a source/drain of the pass transistor of the first stack and the common gate electrode of the pull-up and pull-down transistors of the second stack are electrically interconnected. A source/drain of the pull-up transistor and of the pull-down transistor of the second stack, a source/drain of the pass transistor of the second stack and the common gate electrode of the pull-up and pull-down transistors of the first stack are electrically interconnected.
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公开(公告)号:US20180144240A1
公开(公告)日:2018-05-24
申请号:US15820239
申请日:2017-11-21
Applicant: IMEC VZW , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Inventor: Daniele Garbin , Dimitrios Rodopoulos , Peter Debacker , Praveen Raghavan
CPC classification number: G06N3/063 , G06N3/04 , G06N3/0454 , G11C11/1659 , G11C11/54 , G11C13/003 , G11C2213/79 , H03K19/168
Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to machine learning, and more particularly to integration of basic machine learning kernels in a semiconductor device. In an aspect, a semiconductor cell is configured to perform one or more logic operations such as one or both of an XNOR and an XOR operation. The semiconductor cell includes a memory unit configured to store a first operand, an input port unit configured to receive a second operand and a switch unit configured to implement one or more logic operations on the stored first operand and the received second operand. The semiconductor cell additionally includes a readout port configured to provide an output of one or more logic operations. A plurality of cells may be organized in an array, and one or more of such arrays may be used to implement a neural network.
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公开(公告)号:US20170294448A1
公开(公告)日:2017-10-12
申请号:US15479633
申请日:2017-04-05
Applicant: IMEC VZW
Inventor: Peter Debacker , Praveen Raghavan , Vassilios Constantinos Gerousis
IPC: H01L27/118
Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) power distribution network is disclosed. In one aspect, the IC includes a stack of layers formed on a substrate. The IC includes standard cells with parallel gate structures oriented in a direction y. Each cell includes an internal power pin for supplying a reference voltage to the cell. The stack includes metal layers in which lines are formed to route signals between cells. The lines in each metal layer have a preferred orientation that is orthogonal to that of the lines in an adjacent metal layer. A first layer is the lowest metal layer that has y as a preferred orientation while also providing routing resources for signal routing between the cells. A second layer is the nearest metal layer above this first layer. The IC includes a power distribution network for delivering the reference voltage to the power pin.
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公开(公告)号:US20170091094A1
公开(公告)日:2017-03-30
申请号:US15250188
申请日:2016-08-29
Applicant: IMEC VZW
Inventor: Francky Catthoor , Praveen Raghavan , Matthias Hartmann , Komalan Manu Perumkunnil , Jose Ignacio Gomez , Christian Tenllado
IPC: G06F12/0811 , G06F3/06
CPC classification number: G06F12/0811 , G06F3/0611 , G06F3/0656 , G06F3/0685 , G06F3/0688 , G06F8/41 , G06F8/452 , G06F9/30036 , G06F9/38 , G06F12/0862 , G06F12/0893 , G06F12/0897 , G06F13/1657 , G06F13/1673 , G06F15/781 , G06F15/7846 , G06F2212/1016 , G06F2212/222 , G06F2212/454 , G06F2212/601 , G06F2212/6028 , G11C7/10 , G11C11/165 , G11C11/1673 , G11C11/1675
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to low-layer memory for a computing platform. An example embodiment includes a memory hierarchy being directly connectable to a processor. The memory hierarchy includes at least a level 1, referred to as L1, memory structure comprising a non-volatile memory unit as L1 data memory and a buffer structure (L1-VWB). The buffer structure includes a plurality of interconnected wide registers with an asymmetric organization, wider towards the non-volatile memory unit than towards a data path connectable to the processor. The buffer structure and the non-volatile memory unit are arranged for being directly connectable to a processor so that data words can be read directly from either of the L1 data memory and the buffer structure (L1-VWB) by the processor.
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公开(公告)号:US10355128B2
公开(公告)日:2019-07-16
申请号:US15835703
申请日:2017-12-08
Applicant: IMEC VZW , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU LEUVEN R&D
Inventor: Praveen Raghavan , Odysseas Zografos
IPC: H01L29/78 , H01L29/66 , H01L21/8234
Abstract: A semiconductor device is disclosed that includes a substrate and at least a first, second, third, and fourth vertical transistor supported by the substrate. Each transistor comprises a vertical channel, a polarity gate electrode forming a polarity gate adapted to act on a first portion of the channel to affect a polarity of the channel, and a control gate electrode forming a control gate adapted to act on a second portion of the channel to control the electrical conductivity of the channel. The polarity gate electrode and the control gate electrode of each one of the transistors extend laterally from their respective gate and in mutually opposite directions, and the transistors are laterally spaced from each other and arranged such that the control gate electrodes of the first and third transistor face each other and the control gate electrodes of the second and fourth transistor face each other.
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公开(公告)号:US20190034111A1
公开(公告)日:2019-01-31
申请号:US16028328
申请日:2018-07-05
Applicant: IMEC vzw , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Inventor: Francky Catthoor , Praveen Raghavan , Daniele Garbin , Dimitrios Rodopoulos , Odysseas Zografos
CPC classification number: G06F3/0646 , G06F3/0604 , G06F3/0673 , G06N3/0445 , G06N3/0454 , G06N3/063 , G06N3/08 , G06N3/088 , G11C7/1006 , G11C11/54 , G11C13/0002 , G11C13/0061 , G11C16/04 , G11C17/165 , G11C2213/71
Abstract: A control plane for controlling transfer of data to a data plane is disclosed. In one aspect, the control plane comprises memory cells for storing a digitally coded parameter value and having a data input electrode, a data output electrode and a control electrode, n data input terminals that receive a data input value and apply it to the data input electrode of an associated memory cell, and n data output terminals coupled to a data output electrode of an associated memory cell. The control plane further comprise a first delay line having delay elements and arranged for receiving a stream of control bit values, and a second delay line having delay elements and arranged for receiving a signal for enabling the control bit values in the first delay line, wherein data is transferred in a controlled and synchronized fashion to an output electrode.
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公开(公告)号:US10019361B2
公开(公告)日:2018-07-10
申请号:US15250188
申请日:2016-08-29
Applicant: IMEC VZW
Inventor: Francky Catthoor , Praveen Raghavan , Matthias Hartmann , Komalan Manu Perumkunnil , Jose Ignacio Gomez , Christian Tenllado
IPC: G06F12/00 , G06F13/00 , G06F13/28 , G06F12/0811 , G06F3/06 , G06F12/0893 , G06F12/0897 , G11C7/10 , G11C11/16 , G06F15/78 , G06F13/16
CPC classification number: G06F12/0811 , G06F3/0611 , G06F3/0656 , G06F3/0685 , G06F3/0688 , G06F8/41 , G06F8/452 , G06F12/0862 , G06F12/0893 , G06F12/0897 , G06F13/1657 , G06F13/1673 , G06F15/781 , G06F15/7846 , G06F2212/1016 , G06F2212/222 , G06F2212/454 , G06F2212/601 , G06F2212/6028 , G11C7/10 , G11C11/165 , G11C11/1673 , G11C11/1675
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to low-layer memory for a computing platform. An example embodiment includes a memory hierarchy being directly connectable to a processor. The memory hierarchy includes at least a level 1, referred to as L1, memory structure comprising a non-volatile memory unit as L1 data memory and a buffer structure (L1-VWB). The buffer structure includes a plurality of interconnected wide registers with an asymmetric organization, wider towards the non-volatile memory unit than towards a data path connectable to the processor. The buffer structure and the non-volatile memory unit are arranged for being directly connectable to a processor so that data words can be read directly from either of the L1 data memory and the buffer structure (L1-VWB) by the processor.
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公开(公告)号:US11475101B2
公开(公告)日:2022-10-18
申请号:US16685892
申请日:2019-11-15
Applicant: IMEC VZW
Inventor: Francky Catthoor , Praveen Raghavan , Dimitrios Rodopoulos , Mohit Dandekar
Abstract: A method and hardware system for mapping an input map of a convolutional neural network layer to an output map are disclosed. An array of processing elements are interconnected to support unidirectional dataflows through the array along at least three different spatial directions. Each processing element is adapted to combine values of dataflows along different spatial directions into a new value for at least one of the supported dataflows. For each data entry in the output map, a plurality of products from pairs of weights of a selected convolution kernel and selected data entries in the input map is provided and arranged into a plurality of associated partial sums. Products associated with a same partial sum are accumulated on the array and accumulated on the array into at least one data entry in the output map.
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公开(公告)号:US10802743B2
公开(公告)日:2020-10-13
申请号:US16028328
申请日:2018-07-05
Applicant: IMEC vzw , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Inventor: Francky Catthoor , Praveen Raghavan , Daniele Garbin , Dimitrios Rodopoulos , Odysseas Zografos
IPC: G06F12/00 , G06F3/06 , G11C16/04 , G11C13/00 , G11C7/10 , G06N3/063 , G11C17/16 , G11C11/54 , G06N3/04 , G06N3/08
Abstract: A control plane for controlling transfer of data to a data plane is disclosed. In one aspect, the control plane comprises memory cells for storing a digitally coded parameter value and having a data input electrode, a data output electrode and a control electrode, n data input terminals that receive a data input value and apply it to the data input electrode of an associated memory cell, and n data output terminals coupled to a data output electrode of an associated memory cell. The control plane further comprise a first delay line having delay elements and arranged for receiving a stream of control bit values, and a second delay line having delay elements and arranged for receiving a signal for enabling the control bit values in the first delay line, wherein data is transferred in a controlled and synchronized fashion to an output electrode.
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