Towards a general-purpose neurocomputing system

The focus of European neural computing research is the ESPRIT II PYGMALION Project, and its successor GALATEA. The authors present their view of this general-purpose neurocomputing system. They describe the PYGMALION programming environment and propose a design for the GALATEA neurocomputing system and neurocomputer architecture. Lastly, they discuss the design of 'neural' chips for the neurocomputer (general-purpose circuits), and the silicon compiler (for special-purpose circuits) which uses PYGMALION's intermediate level language nC.<
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