SPERT-II - A VECTOR MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEM

Spert-II is a high-performance system for signal processing, multimedi a, and neural network applications. The system is based on a custom fi xed-point vector microprocessor packaged for standard workstations. Th e microprocessor is a single-chip implementation of the Torrent vector instruction-set architecture. Spert-II includes a versatile set of li brary routines. It also has a programming environment much like that o f a workstation. The authors used the system to accelerate neural net algorithms. When they employed Spert-II to perform training and recall for the neural networks they use in speech recognition research, it p roved to be faster than commercial workstations.