Cellular computational platform and neurally inspired elements thereof

DWPI Title: Cellular computational platform comprises silicon on insulator wafer, and computational hardware units which are integrated on the wafer, and are interconnected electrically and optically, for forming a hybrid network
Abstract: A cellular computational platform is disclosed that includes a multiplicity of functionally identical, repeating computational hardware units that are interconnected electrically and optically. Each computational hardware unit includes a reprogrammable local memory and has interconnections to other such units that have reconfigurable weights. Each computational hardware unit is configured to transmit signals into the network for broadcast in a protocol-less manner to other such units in the network, and to respond to protocol-less broadcast messages that it receives from the network. Each computational hardware unit is further configured to reprogram the local memory in response to incoming electrical and/or optical signals.
Use: Cellular computational platform.
Advantage: The long-range optical waveguide network is the medium that interconnects computational hardware units, which enhances the optical power for the transmissions in the cellular computational platform.
Novelty: The cellular computational platform comprises a silicon or silicon on insulator wafer. Multiple functionally identical, repeating computational hardware units are integrated on the wafer, and are interconnected electrically and optically, for forming a hybrid network. The platform comprises a long-range optical waveguide network, integrated on the silicon or silicon on insulator wafer, that interconnects computational hardware units. The long-range optical waveguide network is the medium that interconnects computational hardware units.
Filed: 8/13/2013
Application Number: US13966127A
Tech ID: SD 12394.2
This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-NA0003525 awarded by the United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The Government has certain rights in the invention.
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