An Ultra-Low Latency Multicast Router for Large-Scale Multi-Chip Neuromorphic ProcessingShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: 2021 IEEE 3rd international conference on artificial intelligence circuits and systems (AICASs), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2021Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Neuromorphic simulation is fundamental to the study of information processing mechanism of the human brain and can further inspire application development of event-driven spiking neural networks. However large-scale neuromorphic simulation requires massive parallelism on multi-chip processing and imposes great challenges on dealing with data transmission latency and congestion problems between chips, especially when the number of simulated neurons reaches to billions or even trillions level. In this paper, we propose an ultra-low-latency on-chip router together with a multicast routing algorithm that focuses on reducing global loads and balancing loads between links. Additionally, we build a large-scale neuromorphic simulation platform consisting of 64 FPGA chips and evaluate the proposed design on it. The experiment results suggest that this design benefits from the proposed multicast routing algorithm in global communication loads and simulation capacity. This work has 4.1% similar to 5.2% reduction of global loads comparing to previous works and can achieve a latency as low as 25ns and a maximum data throughput of 6.25Gbps/chip.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2021.
National Category
Computer Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-306449DOI: 10.1109/AICAS51828.2021.9458445ISI: 000722241000021Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85113322064OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-306449DiVA, id: diva2:1621183
Conference
IEEE 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), JUN 06-09, 2021, ELECTR NETWORK
Note
QC 20211217
conference ISBN 978-1-6654-1913-0
2021-12-172021-12-172022-10-24Bibliographically approved