Operation in space of artificial neural networks implemented by means of a dedicated architecture based on a transputer

Author

Velazco, R. ; Cheynet, Ph. ; Ecoffet, R.

Author_Institution

TIMA Lab., Grenoble, France

fYear

1998

fDate

30 Sep-3 Oct 1998

Firstpage

162

Lastpage

165

Abstract

The Microelectronics and Photonics Testbed (MPTB) carrying twenty-four experiments on-board a scientific satellite has been in a high radiation orbit since November 1997. This paper presents first results for one of its experiments devoted to the evaluation of the behaviour in space of artificial neural networks implemented on a dedicated architecture. This architecture is built around a reduced instruction set microprocessor with parallelism capabilities, a dedicated neural co-processor and two commercial static RAMs

Keywords

SRAM chips; aerospace testing; coprocessors; integrated circuit testing; neural chips; parallel architectures; reduced instruction set computing; space vehicle electronics; special purpose computers; transputers; MPTB; Microelectronics and Photonics Testbed; artificial neural network; commercial static RAMs; dedicated architecture; dedicated neural co-processor; high radiation orbit; parallelism capabilities; reduced instruction set microprocessor; scientific satellite; space vehicle electronics; transputer; Application software; Artificial neural networks; Circuits; Intelligent networks; Microelectronics; Neural network hardware; Photonics; Radiation hardening; Silicon on insulator technology; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated Circuit Design, 1998. Proceedings. XI Brazilian Symposium on

Conference_Location

Rio de Janeiro

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8704-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SBCCI.1998.715432

Filename

715432