A general-purpose model translation system for a universal neural chip

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

Volumn 6443 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 58-65

  Galluppi, Francesco ^a   Rast, Alexander ^a   Davies, Sergio ^a   Furber, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

hardware; neuromimetic; neuromorphic; PyNN

Indexed keywords

CELL TYPES; LOAD APPLICATION; MODEL TRANSLATION; MULTI-CHIP; NETWORK DYNAMICS; NEURAL CHIPS; NEURAL NETWORK MODEL; NEURAL NETWORKS MODELLING; NEUROMIMETIC; NEUROMORPHIC; PARALLEL HARDWARE; PYNN; SINGLE NEURON; STANDARD NEURAL; MULTI CHIP SYSTEM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; HARDWARE;

NEURAL NETWORKS; MODELING LANGUAGES;

EID: 78650223866     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17537-4_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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