Samsung patents chip design to train spiking neural networks
Samsung describes a hardware system that mimics the brain's spiking neural networks using electronic pulses. It includes specific arrays to process signals and store data needed to adjust the network's learning over time.
In the filing’s own words
There is provided an array system including a first pulse generator configured to generate a pulse of a pre-synaptic neuron among spiking neurons of a spiking neural network (SNN), a first synaptic array including first synaptic elements configured to process a first signal of the pre-synaptic neuron and based on the pulse, a second synaptic array including second synaptic elements configured to store a gradient transferred from a post-synaptic neuron among the spiking neurons, and a peripheral circuit block configured to generate a spike trace of the gradient and changes to the gradient over time based on the pulse, and to train the SNN by a pseudo-derivative value of the gradient.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An array system comprising: a first pulse generator configured to generate a pulse of a pre-synaptic neuron among spiking neurons of a spiking neural network (SNN); a first synaptic array comprising first synaptic elements configured to process a first signal of the pre-synaptic neuron and based on the pulse; a second synaptic array comprising second synaptic elements configured to store a gradient transferred from a post-synaptic neuron among the spiking neurons; and a peripheral circuit block configured to generate a spike trace of the gradient and changes to the gradient over time based on the pulse, and to train the SNN by a pseudo-derivative value of the gradient.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- ARRAY SYSTEM FOR SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK AND OPERATING METHOD OF ARRAY SYSTEM
- Publication number
- US20260330200A1
- Application number
- 19394117
- Filed
- Nov 19, 2025
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06N 3/049 Physics & computingG06N 3/047 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in Chips & hardware
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