Re: Hardware Neural Network
- From: "Tom Lucas" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:35:27 -0000
"Daniele" <daniele.dileo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,
I'm a university student, and I'm realizing a research on artificial
neural networks. The aim of my research is the feasibility of putting
an artificial neural network on a microcontroller or a DSP. Because of
the sigmoid function, I think that would be necessary a 32-bit
microcontroller (or DSP) for floating point operations. I was
searching online but I only had found exhaustive informations on
software realization of ANN's, but it's not what I was searching for.
Does someone have any hint or any previous experience on the hardware
realization of an ANN?
I think the better solution is the DSP, due to its power on floating
points operation, is it right?
Here are some details of the network:
5 or 6 inputs
about 10 neurons in the hidden layer
2 outputs
I'm sketchy on the details but I believe there are dedicated ANN devices
available which could be an interesting diversion. Also I'd bet that
someone has produced something in an FPGA that might be relevent.
<Checks with Google> Yes they have. The parallelism of the FPGA would
probably make for a much faster solution too. However, a lot of your
design decisions must be dictated by your application - there are a lot
of ANN implementations out there and they are not necessarily all heavy
on floating point.
.
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