An electronic neurocomputer using general purpose floating point digital signal processors

Author

Iwata, Akira ; Sato, Yukimasa ; Suzumura, Nobuo ; Matsuda, Satoshi ; Yoshida, Yukio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nagoya Inst. of Technol., Japan

fYear

1989

fDate

9-12 Nov 1989

Firstpage

2036

Abstract

An electronic neurocomputer, Neuro Turbo, has been implemented, using the recently developed general-purpose, 24-bit floating-point digital signal processor (DSP), MB86220. The Neuro Turbo is a MIMD (multiple-instruction-multiple-data) type parallel processor with four ring-coupled DSPs and four dual-port memories. The performance of the Neuro Turbo has been evaluated for several kinds of three-layer neural network. An operational speed of 2 MCPS for the learning process and 11 MCPS for the rewarding process has been achieved

Keywords

digital signal processing chips; neural nets; parallel architectures; parallel machines; 24 bit; MB86220; Neuro Turbo; dual-port memories; electronic neurocomputer; floating-point digital signal processor; general purpose floating point digital signal processors; multiple instruction multiple data type parallel processor; operational speed; ring-coupled DSPs; three-layer neural network; Computer architecture; Digital signal processing; Digital signal processors; Distributed processing; Hardware; Microcomputers; National electric code; Neural networks; Random access memory; Signal processing algorithms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1989.96582

Filename

96582