Multimode operation in an optical/digital neuroprocessor with 1024 neurons
Yanxin Zhang, Shengjiang Chang, Zhanbing Feng, Shengquan Gao, Guoguang Mu · Optical Engineering · 1996
A hybrid neuroprocessor (NP) with bipolar optical interconnections and a personal computer (PC) for subtraction, nonlinear operation, and system control is described. The interconnection topology of the 1024 neurons in the processor can constitute either a single-layer feedback network or a multilayered feedforward one. By using different optical interconnection weight masks and corresponding PC programs, a variety of processing tasks can be performed in the NP.