Title :
MANTRA I: a systolic neuro-computer
Author :
Viredaz, Marc A. ; Ienne, Paolo
Author_Institution :
LAMI & MANTRA, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
This paper presents the MANTRA I machine, a SIMD neuro-computer based on a square systolic array of dedicated processing elements (PEs). A VLSI custom chip, called GENES IV containing 2×2 PEs is at the heart of the system. This machine implements sufficient instruction and data flows to keep the array´s utilization rate close to 100%.
Keywords :
VLSI; neural chips; neural nets; parallel machines; parallel processing; performance evaluation; systolic arrays; GENES IV; MANTRA I machine; SIMD neuro-computer; VLSI custom chip; data flows; dedicated processing elements; square systolic array; Arithmetic; Artificial neural networks; Euclidean distance; Hardware; Heart; Multilayer perceptrons; Neural networks; Systolic arrays; Very large scale integration; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks, 1993. IJCNN '93-Nagoya. Proceedings of 1993 International Joint Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1421-2
DOI :
10.1109/IJCNN.1993.714364
