ADVANCE INFORMATION

Irvine Sensors Corporation

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DIVISION – 3DANN PRODUCTS™
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3DANN-R Vector Image Processing System

Features:

• Stacked IC module and interface electronics

• Ultra-High Speed - 1012 Ops for accelerating convolution computations
• Module contains 64 identical layers of custom analog processing ASICs that
compute the inner product of an image vector and a weight (kernal) vector
• Digital signals are converted to analog within the module
• 5-10 Watts power dissipation
• Module size: (½)3 inch3

General Desription:

The 3DANN-R system is comprised of a stacked IC module and interface electronics

designed for the purpose of accelerating inner product calculations. The intended
throughput of the 3DANN-R system is 1x1012 operations per second, where an
operation is an 8 bit multiply and sum.

The 3DANN-R module receives digital input signals for the image and kernels. Within
the module the digital signals are converted to analog. The inner product math is
performed in analog and sent out from the module on 64 lines as an analog current.
The signals are received by 64 transimpedance buffer amplifiers that convert the signals
to voltages. The voltages are then converted back to digital by 64 analog to digital
converters. The signals are formatted to be 10 bit bipolar output. Mid scale ADC output
represents zero signal from the 3DANN-R. A least significant bit of the ADC represents
about 2 millivolts of noise.

For more information contact ATD Marketing:

Phone 1-714-549-8211 Fax 1-714-444-8840 E-mail ProductInfo@irvine-sensors.com
Irvine Sensors Corporation, 3001 Redhill Avenue, Building 3, Costa Mesa, CA 92656-4529
This document contains preliminary information on a product under development. IRVINE SENSORS CORPORATION reserves the right to
change product specifications or discontinue this product without prior notice. All trademarks and/or registered trademarks are properties of
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Irvine Sensors Corporation
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DIVISION – 3DANN PRODUCTS™
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Technical Specifications:

Transfer Function Inner product of vector with kernel,

Multiply and Sum
Input Dynamic Range 8-bits plus sign
Output Dynamic Range 9-bits plus sign
Kernel Dynamic Range 7-bits plus sign
Operations Per Second 1x1012
Computation Frequency 4 MHz
Input Signal Serial Clock 40 MHz
Kernel Size Adjustable in steps of 64 without padded
zeros, i.e. 64, 128, 256, … 4096
Linearity ~1%
Power Dissipation 5-10 Watts
Processor Volume (1/2)3 inch3
Weight Update Time 1 msecond

Functional Block Diagram:

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For more information contact ATD Marketing:

Phone 1-714-549-8211 Fax 1-714-444-8840 E-mail ProductInfo@irvine-sensors.com
Irvine Sensors Corporation, 3001 Redhill Avenue, Building 3, Costa Mesa, CA 92656-4529
This document contains preliminary information on a product under development. IRVINE SENSORS CORPORATION reserves the right to
change product specifications or discontinue this product without prior notice. All trademarks and/or registered trademarks are properties of
their respective companies. © 1999 Irvine Sensors Corporation. All rights reserved. 9/99