A 5.9 mW 6.5 GMACS CID/DRAM array processor

ESSCIRC 2002

A 5.9mW 6.5GMACS CID/DRAM Array Processor Roman Genov, Gert Cauwenberghs, Grant Mulliken, Farhan Adil Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218, USA roman,gert
@jhu.edu Abstract

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The pattern recognition processor performs digital vector matrix multiplication using internally analog fine-grain parallel computing. The three-transistor CID/DRAM unit cell combines single-bit dynamic storage, binary multiplication, and zero-latency analog accumulation. Delta-sigma analog-to-digital conversion of the analog array outputs is combined with oversampled unary coding of the digital inputs. The 256  128 CID/DRAM processor with integrated 128 delta-sigma ADCs measures 3 mm  3 mm in 0.5  m CMOS and delivers 1.1 GMACS/mW.

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Introduction

Real-time video pattern recognition [1] on a mobile platform imposes great demands on computational throughput and power consumption. The presented mixed-signal processor contains a fine-grain parallel computational array, achieving a computational throughput of 1.1 GMACS for every mW of power. The internally analog processor interfaces externally in digital format. The computational core of template matching operations in image processing and pattern recognition is that of vector-matrix multiplication (VMM) in high dimensions:

     

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