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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Rodrigo Alvarez-Icaza Rivera, San Jose, CA (US);
John V. Arthur, Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrew S. Cassidy, Austin, TX (US);
Bryan L. Jackson, Fremont, CA (US);
Paul A. Merolla, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dharmendra S. Modha, San Jose, CA (US);
Jun Sawada, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a system comprising multiple core circuits. Each core circuit comprises multiple electronic axons for receiving event packets, multiple electronic neurons for generating event packets, and a fanout crossbar including multiple electronic synapse devices for interconnecting the neurons with the axons. The system further comprises a routing system for routing event packets between the core circuits. The routing system virtually connects each neuron with one or more programmable target axons for the neuron by routing each event packet generated by the neuron to the target axons. Each target axon for each neuron of each core circuit is an axon located on the same core circuit as, or a different core circuit than, the neuron.