Token-passing communication protocol in hardware based real-time spiking neural networks

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7365, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Belhadj, B ^a,b   Tomas, J ^a,b   Malot, O ^a,b   Bornat, Y ^a,b   N'Kaoua, G ^a,b   Renaud, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Bio inspired systems; Realtime distributed systems; Spiking neural network; Token passing communication; Token ring architecture

Indexed keywords

BIO-INSPIRED SYSTEMS; REALTIME DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK; TOKEN-PASSING COMMUNICATION; TOKEN-RING ARCHITECTURE;

COMMUNICATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTIPLEXING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 69949169985     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.821682     Document Type: Conference Paper

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