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This paper presents a massively parallel neurocomputer system which is mainly based on a new reconfigurable arithmetical unit optimized for the simulation of neural networks. The system offers a very high performance for all typical neural network operations combined with a high flexibility to adapt the available hardware resources to the requirements of a user-selected neural network model. The main system features are the support of many different bitlengths, a high memory bandwidth, a good scalability and a dynamic reconfigurability.
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Strey, A., Avellana, N., Holgado, R., Fernández, J.A., Capillas, R., Valderrama, E. (1995). A massively parallel neurocomputer with a reconfigurable arithmetical unit. In: Mira, J., Sandoval, F. (eds) From Natural to Artificial Neural Computation. IWANN 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 930. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-59497-3_253
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