NETMAP - AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR BUILDING ANALOG NEURAL NETWORKS

NETMAP hardware is described in detail along with our solutions to opt imize inter-processor data throughput. Four processors of very differe nt nature interact in the system: The PC central processor, a digital signal processor, a bit-slice microsequencer and a neural network proc essor called ETANN. A description of the software modules for the proc essors is given. The weight setting and network training algorithms ar e also described. Finally, performance considerations and test results are analyzed.