Two-ring systolic array network for artificial neural networks

被引:2
作者
Amin, H [1 ]
Curtis, KM [1 ]
Gill, BRH [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Nottingham, Sch Elect & Elect Engn, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England
来源
IEE PROCEEDINGS-CIRCUITS DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | 1999年 / 146卷 / 05期
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D O I
10.1049/ip-cds:19990534
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
The paper describes an efficient and fast systolic architecture for the implementation of artificial neural networks. The proposed architecture, TORAN (two-in-one ring array network), combines two-ring systolic array networks to perform two sets of weight-data pair multiplication operations in parallel. This increases the hardware by 40% but reduces by 50% the number of cycles to perform the weighted sum calculation compared with a single systolic ring-array network.
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页数:6
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