US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 7 for "Stochastic bitstream generation with in-situ function mapping" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,921, issued on April 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Stochastic bitstream generation with in-situ function mapping" was invented by Pritish Narayanan (San Jose, Calif.) and Geoffrey Burr (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating digital outputs as stochastic bitstreams with activation function mapping are provided. In one aspect, a system includes: a shared circuitry component including a RNG for generating a sequence of random addresses to read a random sequence of digital voltage references stored in a LUT, and a DAC for converting the random sequence of di...