Patent ID: 11914860
Assignee: MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 24:
25. The method of claim 21, wherein performing the memory access operation comprises:
determining that a first weight of the first set of weights has a particular importance value;
comparing the particular importance value to a threshold importance value;
conditioned on a result of the comparison indicating that the particular importance value is greater than or equal to the threshold importance value, performing a full error correction check as part of the one or more read or write operations for the first weight; and
conditioned on a result of the comparison indicating that the particular importance value is less than the threshold importance value, performing a partial error correction check as part of the one or more read or write operations for the first weight, wherein the partial error correction check is performed on one of the most significant bits corresponding to the first weight, or the least significant bits corresponding to the first weight.