METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME MONITORING OF AN ARTIFICAL NEURAL NETWORK

摘要

A circuit element of a multi-dimensional dynamic adaptive neural network array (DANNA) may comprise a neuron/synapse select input functional to select the circuit element to function as one of a neuron and a synapse. In one embodiment of a DANNA array of such circuit elements, (wherein a circuit element may be digital), a destination neuron may be connected to a first neuron by a first synapse in one dimension a second destination neuron may be connected to the first neuron by a second synapse in a second dimension to form linked columns and rows of neuron/synapse circuit elements. In one embodiment, the rows and columns of circuit elements have read registers that are linked together by signal lines and clocked and controlled so as to output columnar data to an output register when a neuron/synapse data value is stored in the read register.

主权项

1. Apparatus for a neuromorphic network comprising an artificial neural network, the artificial neural network comprising a multi-dimensional array of interconnected circuit elements, each circuit element having similar components to one another selectively representing, under special purpose program control, one of a neuron and a synapse, at least one circuit element of the array selectively representing an input neuron, at least one circuit element of the array selectively representing an output synapse and under program control one to multiple circuit elements of the array selectively representing a neuron or a synapse connected between the input neuron and the output synapse, the circuit elements formed in an array of rows and columns with signal lines connecting rows and signal lines connecting columns, a given circuit element at a particular row and column number selectively reporting its output to an output register when a value is stored in a read register of the circuit element.