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Tanner Tools to Play Key Role in Development of Neuromorphic Chips at University of Pennsylvania Workshop; Participants to Go from Concept to Chip in Three Days with Help of Tools
Source: Tanner EDA
Oct 12, 2005, 13:16

PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Oct. 12, 2005--Participants at a workshop sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania`s Neuroengineering Research Lab will use Tanner EDA`s tools to help design in three days chips for intricate neural networks. It is hoped that future versions of these kinds of chips will simulate the brain to help solve problems the biological brain does routinely.

Workshop attendees will use ChipGen, a silicon compiler for neuromorphic chips developed at Penn using Tanner`s L-Comp macros, part of a standard tool suite, which includes L-Edit(R) Layout, DRC, LVS, Place and Route and T-Spice Pro(R). Tanner`s standard tool suite has been used successfully to create a number of highly innovative and commercially successful products, including Bluetooth products, imaging chips used in the cameras on NASA Mars Rovers, advanced polymer displays, sensors and MEMS devices.

''Flexible and easy-to-use software tools, such as Tanner`s tools, are critical enablers to creating entirely new types of circuitry, such as the neural networks that we are working on,'' noted Kwabena Boahen, associate professor in the Bioengineering Department at the University of Pennsylvania. ''We anticipate that the results of this workshop will help advance the important work in linking electronic circuitry and neurobiology and its applications in science and computing.''

Co-sponsored with Institute for Neuromorphic Engineering at the University of Maryland, Boahen`s lab at Penn is hosting the workshop Dec. 3-5 with 10 participants selected based on proposals of the chip design and its test plan. Participants will leave the workshop with a completed design that supports efficient connectivity among silicon neuron chips, which will enable larger neural networks to be built, making it possible for neuromorphic engineers to move beyond sensory systems such as the retina to cognitive systems such as the visual cortex.

More information on the workshop is available at https://www.neuroengineering.upenn.edu/boahen/meth/fs_tools.htm.


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