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Assessing Self-Repair on FPGAs with Biologically Realistic Astrocyte-Neuron Networks

Karim, S., Harkin, J., McDaid, L., Gardiner, B., Liu, J., Halliday, D.M., Tyrrell, A.M., Timmis, Jonathan, Millard, A. and Johnson, A. (2017) Assessing Self-Repair on FPGAs with Biologically Realistic Astrocyte-Neuron Networks. IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI, 2017-J. pp. 421-426. ISSN 2159-3477

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Abstract

This paper presents a hardware based implementation of a biologically-faithful astrocyte-based selfrepairing mechanism for Spiking Neural Networks. Spiking Astrocyte-neuron Networks (SANNs) are a new computing paradigm which capture the key mechanisms of how the human brain performs repairs. Using SANN in hardware affords the potential for realizing computing architecture that can self-repair. This paper demonstrates that Spiking Astrocyte Neural Network (SANN) in hardware have a resilience to significant levels of faults. The key novelty of the paper resides in implementing an SANN on FPGAs using fixed-point representation and demonstrating graceful performance degradation to different levels of injected faults via its self-repair capability. A fixed-point implementation of astrocyte, neurons and tripartite synapses are presented and compared against previous hardware floating-point and Matlab software implementations of SANN. All results are obtained from the SANN FPGA implementation and show how the reduced fixedpoint representation can maintain the biologically-realistic repair capability.

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Depositing User: Jonathan Timmis

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Item ID: 11573
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISVLSI.2017.80
ISSN: 2159-3477
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/11573
Official URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7987556

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Date Deposited: 27 Feb 2020 14:32
Last Modified: 27 Feb 2020 14:32

Contributors

Author: S. Karim
Author: J. Harkin
Author: L. McDaid
Author: B. Gardiner
Author: J. Liu
Author: D.M. Halliday
Author: A.M. Tyrrell
Author: Jonathan Timmis
Author: A. Millard
Author: A. Johnson

University Divisions

Faculty of Technology > School of Computer Science

Subjects

Computing > Artificial Intelligence

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