High Performance Fault-Tolerant Digital Neural Networks

  • Authors:
  • Simone Bettola

  • Affiliations:
  • Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Efficient implementation of neural networks requires high-performance architectures, while VLSI realization for mission-critical applications must include fault tolerance. Contemporaneous solution of such problems has not yet been completely afforded in the literature. This paper focuses both on data representation to support high-performance neural computation and on error detection to provide the basic information for fault tolerance by using the redundant binary representation with a three-rail logic implementation. Costs and performances are evaluated referring to multilayered feed-forward networks.