The Japan Society of Applied Physics

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

[K-6-03] A Mixing-mode Matrix-Vector-Multiplication Architecture for Large-scale Perceptron Operation

Yu- Yu Lin1, Feng-Min Lee1, Ming-Hsiu Lee1, Keh-Chung Wang1, Chih-Yuan Lu1 (1. Macronix International Co., Ltd. (Taiwan))

https://doi.org/10.7567/SSDM.2023.K-6-03

A novel mixing-mode architecture that combines the sum-of-resistance and sum-of-current approaches is proposed to address the challenge of handling large-scale sum-of-product operations with number of weights and input values exceeding thousands. The proposed architecture outputs a delay time that is proportional to the sum-of-product result of the perceptron operation, with minimal variation and good linearity. The mixing-mode architecture has high potential in computing-in-memory applications, which offers significant improvements on computing parallelism and energy efficiency for large-scale neural network implementations.