A MULTINEURO computer system by using high performance digital neuro processor

Author

Saito, Takashi ; Baba, Yasushi ; Gawa, Koichi Naka ; Fuwa, Yutaka ; Shimokawa, Yoshiyuki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microelectron. Syst. Instrum., Toshiba Corp., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

1995

fDate

26-28 Jul 1995

Firstpage

1419

Lastpage

1424

Abstract

We have developed an accelerator device “MULTINEURO-A” which incorporates multiple processors (one master node and plural slave nodes) dedicated to neural network high-speed computing realized on an engineering workstation. Nodes are connected by two data paths, broadcast bus and ring bus. Processing speed is in proportion to the number of processors. It is built in two boards (master and slave) having 64 VLSI processors that offers to 1.5 billion connections per seconds. It processes forward/backward calculation of multilayer perceptron type neural networks, feedback type neural networks such as Hopfield model, and any other types by programming for parallel processing

Keywords

Hopfield neural nets; VLSI; engineering workstations; multilayer perceptrons; multiprocessing systems; neural nets; special purpose computers; system buses; Hopfield neural networks; MULTINEURO-A; VLSI processors; accelerator device; broadcast bus; engineering workstation; feedback neural networks; forward/backward calculation; high performance digital neuro processor; multilayer perceptron; multiple processors; neural network high-speed computing; parallel processing; ring bus; Computer networks; Feedforward neural networks; High performance computing; Hopfield neural networks; Master-slave; Multi-layer neural network; Multilayer perceptrons; Neural networks; Very large scale integration; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SICE '95. Proceedings of the 34th SICE Annual Conference. International Session Papers

Conference_Location

Hokkaido

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2781-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICE.1995.526722

Filename

526722