Live Demonstration: Packet-Based AER with 3 GEvent/s Cumulative Throughput

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Abstract

Traditionally, the communication in neuromorphic VLSI systems has been done via parallel asynchronous transmission of Address-Event-Representations (AER) of neuron pulses. Recently, there has been a move towards greater event transmission speed via a serialization of the AER protocols. We give a live demonstration of a packet based synchronous serial AER infrastructure presented in a recent paper, which handles the complete off-wafer communication and configuration for a newly developed waferscale neuromorphic system, operating at a factor of 10 4 faster than biological real-time. Pulse packets are routed from the host PC via Gbit Ethernet to an FPGA board, which forwards them to 4 purpose designed Digital Network ASICs (DNCs) on the same board. The DNCs buffer and sort the pulses, implementing 32 2GBit/s Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS) interfaces to the neuromorphic circuits on the wafer. Pulse communication to other wafers is done via an FPGA- FPGA communication using 10 Gbit/s Aurora links.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
PublisherIEEE Xplore
Pages1988-1988
Number of pages1
ISBN (electronic)978-1-4244-9474-3, 978-1-4244-9472-9
ISBN (print)978-1-4244-9473-6
Publication statusPublished - 18 May 2011
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesIEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
ISSN0271-4302

Conference

Title2011 IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
Duration15 - 18 May 2011
LocationRio de Janeiro, Brazil

External IDs

Scopus 79960883166
Ieee 10.1109/ISCAS.2011.5937981
ORCID /0000-0002-6286-5064/work/166324417

Keywords

Keywords

  • Biology, Delay, Semiconductor device modeling, Field programmable gate arrays, Neuromorphics, Throughput