U.S. Philips Corporation

Christian P Jousselin

Marc A Duranton

Jean-Paul Moskowitz

An arrangement of data cells which stores at least one matrix of data words which are arranged in rows and columns, the matrix being distributed in the arrangement in order to deliver/receive, via a single bus, permuted data words which correspond either to a row or to a column of the matrix. Each data cell is connected to the single bus via series-connected switches which are associated with a respective addressing mode, the switches which address a same word of a same mode being directly controlled by a same selection signal. Circulation members enable the original order of the data on the bus to be restored. An arrangement of this kind is used in a layered neural network system for executing the error backpropagation algorithm.

Arrangement of data cells and neural network system utilizing such an

Process for the management of address words which determines destination addresses for the switching of data on the basis of input address words of (M+N) bits. The process includes the following steps:

Method and device for the processing of address words

An arrangement of data cells which stores at least one matrix of data words which are arranged in rows and columns, the matrix being distributed in the arrangement in order to deliver/receive, via a single bus, permuted data words which correspond either to a row or to a column of the matrix. Each data cell is connected to the single bus via series-connected switches which are associated with a respective addressing mode, the switches which address a same word of a same mode being directly controlled by a same selection signal. Circulation members enable the original order of the data on the bus to be restored. An arrangement of this kind is used in a layered neural network system for executing the error backpropagation algorithm. Application: Calculator, microprocessors, processor, neural network system. Reference: FIG. 4.

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Puteaux, France

Christian P Jousselin