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The FACETS Single Chip System
- The single chip system. It consists of the Spikey chips, each hosted on a Nathan carrier board. Several Nathans are interconnected on a backplane (click on image to enlarge)
The single chip system is based on the "Spikey" chip, the first neuromorphic chip developed in the Electronic Vision(s) group. The basic FPGA platform developed for the HAGEN chip is resused to allow the simulateous operation of 16 Spikey chips on a single backplane.
By communicating the neural action potentials beween different chips networks much larger than the indiviudal chips 100k synapses can be modeled. For this purpose an isochronous network protocol has been developed.
Last update of this page: 2011-05-19_
