Qualcomm Incorporated

John Daniels

Jeffrey Alexander Levin

Venkat Rangan

Jeffrey Gemar

Rexford Alan Hill

Jason Edward Podaima

Kyle Ernewein

Jan Krzys Wegrzyn

Haoping Xu

Francisco Perez

Alex Miler

Systems and methods are disclosed method for controlling instantaneous current changes in parallel processors with arrays of parallel computing elements, such as neural processors. An exemplary method comprises monitoring the array of computing elements and determining a transition from a first activity level of the array to a second activity level of the array, such as an idle-to-active or active-to-idle transition. Once a transition is determined, the array is selectively controlled to minimize the instantaneous current change from the transition from the first activity level to the second activity level.

Systems and methods for controlling instantaneous current changes in parallel processors

Aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for allocating memory in an artificial nervous system simulator implemented in hardware. According to certain aspects, memory resource requirements for one or more components of an artificial nervous system being simulated may be determined and portions of a shared memory pool (which may include on-chip and/or off-chip RAM) may be allocated to the components based on the determination.

Shared memory architecture for a neural simulator

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John Daniels