Equation 3 · Part 1 · How Post-CMOS, Neuromorphic, Photonic, and Quantum AI Compute Actually Works
Symbol I_j
What this part means
the total current collected at the bottom of column j.
Its job in the formula
is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
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Where the article explains it
By Kirchhoff’s current law, every current flowing into a given column sums automatically on that column’s wire, so the total current collected at the bottom of column j is
The passage around this formula
The multiplication step follows directly from two textbook circuit laws. Apply a voltage simultaneously to each row i, representing the i-th component of an input vector. By Ohm’s law, the cell at row i and column j draws a current times its conductance j. By Kirchhoff’s current law, every current flowing into a given column sums automatically on that column’s wire, so the total current collected at the bottom of column j is . which is precisely the j-th component of the matrix-vector product between the input vector and the conductance matrix stored across the array — computed in one step, in parallel across every cell, using nothing but the physics of the…
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