Title :
Design of a pulse stream neural network
Author :
Haycock, R.J. ; York, T.A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron., Univ. of Manchester Inst. of Sci. & Technol., UK
Abstract :
A BiCMOS, asynchronous, pulse-stream neuron chip and a CMOS, asynchronous, pulse-stream synapse chip have been designed. The neuron chip uses novel circuitry to implement an accurate sigmoid transfer characteristic. The synapse chip uses a new pulse-stream implementation of the differential amplifier and requires only five transistors to produce a linear multiplier. Training has been performed in software using ideal models of the neurons and synapses.
Keywords :
BiCMOS integrated circuits; CMOS integrated circuits; differential amplifiers; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; multiplying circuits; neural chips; BiCMOS; CMOS; asynchronous neuron chip; differential amplifier; ideal models; linear multiplier; pulse stream neural network; sigmoid transfer characteristic; synapse chip; Artificial neural networks; Biological neural networks; Biological system modeling; Circuits; Computer networks; Fault tolerance; Neural networks; Neurons; Pulse amplifiers; Transfer functions;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1997. Proceedings of the 40th Midwest Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3694-1
DOI :
10.1109/MWSCAS.1997.662258
