Title :
An artificial neural network accelerator using general purpose 24 bit floating point digital signal processors
Author :
Iwata, Akira ; Yoshida, Yukio ; Matsuda, Satoshi ; Sato, Yukimasa ; Suzumura, Nobuo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nagoya Inst. of Technol., Japan
Abstract :
An artificial neural network (ANN) accelerator named Neuro Turbo was implemented using four recently developed general-purpose 24-b floating-point digital signal processors (DSP) MB86220. The Neuro Turbo is a MIMD (multiple-instruction, multiple-data) parallel processor having four ring-coupled DSPs and four dual-port memories (DPM). It is designed compactly to plug into the extender slots of the NEC personal computer PC98 series. The performance was evaluated by constructing a neural network to recognize the 26 type fonts of the alphabet set. Processing speeds of 2 MCPS (million connections per second) for the learning procedure and 11 MCPS for the forward pass were achieved.<>
Keywords :
add-on boards; computerised signal processing; neural nets; parallel architectures; parallel machines; 24 bit; MB86220; MIMD; NEC personal computer; Neuro Turbo; PC98 series; artificial neural network accelerator; backpropagation algorithm; digital signal processors; dual-port memories; floating point DSP; multiple-data; multiple-instruction; parallel processor; plug-in processor board; ring architecture; ring-coupled DSPs; Neural networks; Parallel architectures; Parallel machines;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks, 1989. IJCNN., International Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC, USA
DOI :
10.1109/IJCNN.1989.118695
