Population-based routing in the SpiNNaker neuromorphic architecture

Sergio Davies; Javier Navaridas; Francesco Galluppi; Steve Furber

doi:10.1109/IJCNN.2012.6252635

Population-based routing in the SpiNNaker neuromorphic architecture

Sergio Davies
, Javier Navaridas
, Francesco Galluppi
, Steve Furber

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SpiNNaker is a hardware-based massively-parallel real-time universal neural network simulator designed to simulate large-scale spiking neural networks. Spikes are distributed across the system using a multicast packet router. Each packet represents an event (spike) generated by a neuron. On the basis of the source of the spike (chip, core and neuron), the routers distribute the network packet across the system towards the destination neuron(s). This paper describes a novel approach to the projection routing problem that shows advantages in both the size of the routing tables generated and the computational complexity for the generation of routing tables. To achieve this, spikes are routed on the basis of the source population, leaving to the destination core the duty to propagate the received spike to the appropriate neuron(s). © 2012 IEEE.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks\|Proc Int Jt Conf Neural Networks
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2012.6252635
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	2012 Annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2012, Part of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2012 - Brisbane, QLD Duration: 1 Jul 2012 → …

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Conference	2012 Annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2012, Part of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2012
City	Brisbane, QLD
Period	1/07/12 → …

Keywords

Biological neural networks , Computer architecture , Hardware , Neurons , Routing , Software

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Davies, S, Navaridas, J, Galluppi, F & Furber, S 2012, Population-based routing in the SpiNNaker neuromorphic architecture. in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks|Proc Int Jt Conf Neural Networks. 2012 Annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2012, Part of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2012, Brisbane, QLD, 1/07/12. https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2012.6252635

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