US Patent Issued to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY on Jan. 27 for "Low power generative adversarial network accelerator and mixed-signal time-domain MAC array" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,420, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Ill.).

"Low power generative adversarial network accelerator and mixed-signal time-domain MAC array" was invented by Jie Gu (Evanston, Ill.) and Zhengyu Chen (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a low-cost mixed-signal time-domain accelerator for generative adversarial network (GAN) are provided. In one aspect, a system includes a memory and a training management unit (TMU) in communication with the memory. The TMU is configured to manage a training sequence. The system includes a time-domain multiplication-accumulation (TDMAC...