R. Scott Hills is the VP of Business Development at ANAFLASH Inc. He has an extensive background in the semiconductor industry. He has worked at several Intellectual Property (IP) companies including ARC International, Cortus, and Seamless Devices/Microsystems. Along with working at Integrated Circuit (IC) companies AMD, VLSI, Cirrus Logic, Alliance Semiconductor, IC Media, Dialog Semiconductor/Renesas, SEMICOA, and Mobius Microsystems/IDT/Renesas. He has a board business acumen from working at early-stage startups in various Executive positions in Sales, Marketing, and Business Development along with co-ownership. His technical knowledge was gained from architecture and design of Central Processing Units at NCR Corporation and Computer Automation, Inc., and product marketing of minicomputers and ADA based microcomputers at Computer Automation and Western Digital. He holds a BSEL degree from California Polytechnic State University and Executive MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology.
ANAFLASH presents a time-domain compute-in-memory IP based on a proprietary mixed signal technology. The architecture uses a weight-stationary array to compute deep neural network operations with very high parallelism and power efficiency. The fabricated mixed-signal technology achieves 50 fJ per 4-bit MAC operation for dense activity networks in 22 nm CMOS. It can operate near threshold supply voltage and save even more energy. The measured silicon results are less than 100 microwatts of power consumption for real-time person detection. The IP is suitable to be embedded in a standard logic process with marginal area overhead near NAND flash memory for low power and high bandwidth AI inference.