| CPC G06F 3/0655 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01)] | 25 Claims |
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1. A computer-implemented method of processing data in-memory comprising:
providing a memory device having a crossbar array structure including N input lines and M output lines, arranged in N rows and M columns, which are interconnected at cross-points defining N×M cells, wherein
the cells include respective memory elements, whereby the crossbar array structure includes a set of N×M memory elements, which decomposes into a first subset of K×M memory elements and a second subset of L×M memory elements, in accordance with a first subset of K rows and a second subset of L rows of the N rows, respectively, where N≥2, M≥2, 1≤L<M, and K+L=N, and
target data are stored across the first subset of K×M memory elements, whereas operand data are stored across the second subset of L×M memory elements;
applying electrical signals to at least two input lines corresponding to at least two rows, the latter including at least one of the K rows and at least one of the L rows, to obtain output signals in output of the M output lines, the output signals depending on target values and operand values, in accordance with data stored across said at least two rows; and
while reading out the output signals, performing a transformation operation, in-memory, on the target values corresponding to data stored in at least one of the subsets of K rows based on the operand values corresponding to data stored in at least one of the subsets of L rows, to obtain transformed data.
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