Self-Timed Router for a Native Truenorth Link

Abstract

The TrueNorth neuromorphic chip has demonstrated significant advantages in power efficiency compared to traditional processors and graphics processing units at tasks related to image and audio classification. However, while the chip has extremely low power consumption, its non-standard I/O interface requires conversion circuitry that currently dominates the overall system power consumption. This report summarizes the work conducted to eliminate this overhead, and provide a native interface to the TrueNorth chip with low power consumption.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1065147

Entities

People

  • Rajit Manohar

Organizations

  • Cornell University

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Application-Specific Integrated Circuits
  • Circuits
  • Coding
  • Communication Channels
  • Computers
  • Conversion
  • Electronics
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Host Computers
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Metastable State
  • Networks
  • Standards

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  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.