The implementation of feedforward network on field programmable gate array

Multilayer feedforward networks are related to functional groups of neurons where information is transmitted from one group to the next. It is a generic framework to characterize the properties of spiking activities in propagation. In this paper, we designed a novelty structure of feedforward network on FPGA to propagate the synchronous spiking activities. The experiment results demonstrate that the hardware implemented feedforward network can achieve the same synchronized states as the results of software simulation and show the high performance of FPGA implementation. The implementation of the feedforward network using one of the Altera Stratix III series FPGA boards is presented.