TECHNIQUES TO REPURPOSE STATIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY ROWS TO STORE A LOOK-UP-TABLE FOR PROCESSOR-IN-MEMORY OPERATIONS

• Main Authors: SUBRAMONEY, Sreenivas, RAMANATHAN, Akshay Krishna, PILLAI, Kamlesh R, RANGACHAR SRINIVASA, Srivatsa, KALSI, Gurpreet Singh, JAIN, Saurabh
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.12.2022
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

Example compute-in-memory (CIM) or processor-in-memory (PIM) techniques using repurposed or dedicated static random access memory (SRAM) rows of an SRAM sub-array to store look-up-table (LUT) entries for use in a multiply and accumulate (MAC) operation.