TrueNorth: a High-Performance, Low-Power Neurosynaptic Processor for Multi-Sensory Perception, Action, and Cognition

نویسندگان

  • Andrew S. Cassidy
  • Jun Sawada
  • Paul A. Merolla
  • John V. Arthur
  • Rodrigo Alvarez-Icaza
  • Filipp Akopyan
  • Bryan L. Jackson
  • Dharmendra S. Modha
چکیده

IBM’s TrueNorth neurosynaptic processor is a radical departure from decades of traditional von Neumann computing. Containing 5.4 billion transistors and fabricated in a 28nm low-power CMOS process technology, TrueNorth contains 1 million neurons and 256 million synapses. With applications ranging from embedded and embodied intelligence to large-scale perceptual analysis of streaming multi-sensory data, this massively parallel processor consumes only 65mW typically.

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تاریخ انتشار 2016