ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,514, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Device and method for reading data in memory" was invented by Jaw-Juinn Horng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chin-Ho Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yung-Chow Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Szu-Chun Tsao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a compute-in-memory ("CIM") system, current signals, indicative of the result of a multiply-and-accumulate operation, from a CIM memory circuit are computed by comparing them with reference currents, which are generated by a current digital-to-analog converter ("DAC") circuit. The memory circuit can in...