FPGA implementations comparison of neuro-cortical inspired convolution processors for spiking systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5517 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2009, Pages 97-105

  Linares Barranco, A ^a   Paz, R ^a   Gomez Rodriguez F ^a   Jimenez A ^a   Rivas, M ^a   Jimenez G ^a   Civit, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS; HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE; IMAGE CONVOLUTION; OPERATION RATES; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PROCESSING TIME; PROCESSOR RESOURCES; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; RESOURCE CONSUMPTION; VISUAL INFORMATION; XILINX SPARTAN-3;

BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DIGITAL COMPUTERS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); NEURAL NETWORKS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

CONVOLUTION;

EID: 68749116799     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02478-8_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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