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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2006
Applicants:
James A. Snook, San Diego, CA (US);
Donald B. Hutson, San Diego, CA (US);
Jeffrey L. Krichmar, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA (US);
Inventors:
James A. Snook, San Diego, CA (US);
Donald B. Hutson, San Diego, CA (US);
Jeffrey L. Krichmar, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA (US);
Assignee:
Neurosciences Research Foundation, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01); A63H 17/25 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A special purpose processor (SPP) can use a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or similar programmable device to model a large number of neural elements. The FPGAs can have multiple cores doing presynaptic, postsynaptic, and plasticity calculations in parallel. Each core can implement multiple neural elements of the neural model.