Energy-Efficient Multipath Ring Network for Heterogeneous Clustered Neuronal Arrays

Andrei Ardelean1, Amir Zjajo2, Sumeet Susheel Kumar2, Rene van Leuken2

  • 1TUDelft, Delft University of Technology
  • 2Delft University of Technology

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11:40 - 11:55 | Tue 6 Mar | Treasure Island ABC | TuAT1.3

Session: BHI Session # 3 – Bioinformatics for Health Monitoring

Abstract

Simulating large spiking neural networks with a high level of realism in a FPGA requires efficient network architectures that satisfy both the resource and interconnect constraints, as well as the changes in traffic patterns due to learning processes. In this paper, we propose a dataflow architecture based on a multipath ring topology that offers traffic shaping capabilities, and high energy-efficiency for the neuron-to-neuron communications.