Semiconductor matrix operation device

Claim 1

A semiconductor signal transforming device for matrix operating a signal of analog type having a continuous amplitude, said semiconductor signal transforming device including an operation device having an input and a plurality of multi-stage charge coupled devices arranged in parallel with the same transfer direction, each of said charge coupled devices having split electrodes for providing a weighting coefficient to respective stages so as to act as an operating unit, an input circuit connected to the input of the operation device, said input circuit having a plurality of analog delay circuits each having a final stage and connected to a corresponding charge coupled device of said operation device, said input circuit providing sampled data of an input signal to be transformed as a simultaneous input to all said delay circuits, the final stage of each of said delay circuits having a charge which is the sampled data of said input signal at respectively different instants, an output circuit connected to an output of said operation device for receiving an output signal operated in the respective charge coupled device for operation, wherein each of said analog delay circuits having another type of charge coupled device with a different number of transfer stages, and each of said charge coupled devices for delaying are respectively coupled at said final stages of said delay circuits to said charge coupled devices for operation with relation to the two transfer directions of the two types of charge coupled devices and become of the same direction.