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2006 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Time Multiplexing Architecture for Inter-neuron Communications
Authors : Fergal Tuffy, Liam McDaid, Martin McGinnity, Jose Santos, Peter Kelly, Vunfu Wong Kwan, John Alderman
Published in: Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2006
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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This paper presents a hardware implementation of a Time Multiplexing Architecture (TMA) that can interconnect arrays of neurons in an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) using a single metal wire. The approach exploits the relative slow operational speed of the biological system by using fast digital hardware to sequentially sample neurons in a layer and transmit the associated spikes to neurons in other layers. The motivation for this work is to develop minimal area inter-neuron communication hardware. An estimate of the density of on-chip neurons afforded by this approach is presented. The paper verifies the operation of the TMA and investigates pulse transmission errors as a function of the sampling rate. Simulations using the Xilinx System Generator (XSG) package demonstrate that the effect of these errors on the performance of an SNN, pre-trained to solve the XOR problem, is negligible if the sampling frequency is sufficiently high.