A Modular Ring Architecture for Large Scale Neural Network Implementations

Lance B. Jump; Panos A. Ligomenides

doi:10.1117/12.970122

1 November 1989 A Modular Ring Architecture for Large Scale Neural Network Implementations

Lance B. Jump, Panos A. Ligomenides

Proceedings Volume 1199, Visual Communications and Image Processing IV; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.970122
Event: 1989 Symposium on Visual Communications, Image Processing, and Intelligent Robotics Systems, 1989, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract

Constructing fully parallel, large scale, neural networks is complicated by the problems of providing for massive interconnectivity and of overcoming fan in/out limitations in area-efficient VLSI/WSI realizations. A modular, bus switched, neural ring architecture employing primitive ring (pRing) processors is proposed, which solves the fan in/out and connectivity problems by a dynamically reconfigurable communication ring that synchronously serves identical, radially connected, processing elements. It also allows cost versus performance trade-offs by the assignment of variable numbers of logical neurons to each physical processing element.

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Lance B. Jump and Panos A. Ligomenides "A Modular Ring Architecture for Large Scale Neural Network Implementations", Proc. SPIE 1199, Visual Communications and Image Processing IV, (1 November 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.970122

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