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- From: kilian@cray.com (Alan Kilian)
- Subject: Neural net chip from Micro Devices
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.150558.25339@hemlock.cray.com>
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- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- Date: 9 Sep 92 15:05:57 CDT
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- Occasionally someone asks about a chip that does Neural nets.
- Here is a chip from Micro Devices (Not Advanced Micro Devices)
- From EDN November 22 1990 PP 26
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- Micro Devices' MD1220 Neural Bit Slice (NBS) can propel you into
- tomorrow's real-time neural network systems today.
- Each device contains eight neurons with fifteen "hard-wired" synaptic
- inputs per neuron. For designs that require more synaptic inputs per
- neuron, expansion through "virtual" synapses is easily accomplished
- with modest additional hardware. MD1220s can be cascaded or paralleled
- to provide a neural network of practically unlimited size, with more
- than 256 synapses per neuron.
-
- An evaluation kit is available with an XT/AT board and two MD1220s,
- software and a "Broom balancing" fixture for $395.00
-
- Contact:
- Micro Devices
- 30 Skyline Drive
- Lake Mary, FL 32746-6201 USA
- Tel (407) 333-4379
- FAX (407) 333-4479
- --
- -Alan Kilian kilian@cray.com 612.683.5499 (Work) 612.729.1652 (Home)
- Cray Research, Inc. 655 F Lone Oak Drive, Eagan MN, 55121
- "It's based on actual math". -Dilbert
-