ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,897, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to PIMIC (Cupertino, Calif.).
"CAP-RAM ADC sharing" was invented by Krishnamurthy Subramanian (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network architecture has a plurality of nodes, with each node being implemented in a CAP-RAM macro comprised of two or more rows of 6T-cell clusters. An analog voltage level present on each row can be sampled by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) which sends a voltage value, in digital form, to a digital periphery. A first input to each of the ADCs is connected to an output line of a first CAP-RAM that is currently active, and a second ADC input ...