SYNAPSE-1: a high-speed general purpose parallel neurocomputer system
Ulrich Ramacher, Wolfgang Raab, J.A.U. Hachmann, J. Beichter, N. Brüls, Matthias Wesseling, E. Sicheneder, J. Gläß, Andreas Wurz, Reinhard Männer · 2002
The paper describes the general purpose neurocomputer SYNAPSE-1 which has been developed in cooperation between Siemens Munich and the University of Mannheim. This system contains one of the most powerful processors available for neural algorithms, the neuro signal processor MA16. The prototype system executes a test algorithm 8000 times as fast as a Sparc-2 workstation. This processing speed has been achieved by using a system architecture which is optimally adapted to the general structure of neural algorithms. It is a systolic array of MA16 processors embedded in a multiprocessor system of general purpose microprocessors.>