Christensen, O'Connor, Johnson & Kindness PLLC
Reconfigurable neural network
 A reconfigurable neural network is disclosed. The neural network includes a plurality of switches each having at least two conductive leads, wherein data flow direction of the conductive leads of the switches is programmed to select one of the conductive leads as input switch lead and select another one of the conductive leads as an output switch lead. A plurality of processing elements each having a plurality of leads connected to the switches, wherein the processing elements and the switches are interconnected in one-dimension manner. Each of the processing elements comprising: (a) a serial-in-parallel-out accumulator having a first input coupled to one of the interconnected switches and generating a first output; (b) an activation function for transforming the first output of the serial-in-parallel-out accumulator and generating a second output; and (c) a parallel-in-serial-out shift register for shifting out the second output of the activation function serially to one of the interconnected switches. 
Industrial Technology Research Institute
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inventional inventional
Chung-Chih Hwai-Tsu Tzi-Dar Huang-Lin Yeh-Rong
Chang Chang Chiueh Yang Hsu