Title :
A multi-sender asynchronous extension to the AER protocol
Author :
Lazzaro, John ; Wawrzynek, John
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Div., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
The address-event representation (AER) is an asynchronous point-to-point communications protocol for silicon neural systems. This paper describes an extension of the AER protocol that allows multiple AER senders to share a common bus. A fully-functional silicon implementation of the extended protocol is described, as well as a functional board-level system of several of these chips sharing a common bus
Keywords :
neural chips; protocols; AER; address-event representation; asynchronous point-to-point communications protocol; multi-sender extension; silicon neural systems; Analog circuits; Analog computers; Biology computing; Energy efficiency; Image coding; Information processing; Neurons; Protocols; Retina; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Research in VLSI, 1995. Proceedings., Sixteenth Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chapel Hill, NC
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7074-9
DOI :
10.1109/ARVLSI.1995.515618
