Reaction-diffusion CNN chip. I. IC implementation

Many works have proved the capability of CNN architecture to reproduce complex phenomena described through partial differential equations (PDEs). This array of simple nonlinear systems called cells, for their analog and spatiotemporal distributed method of processing signals, are considered a powerful tool to generate real-time solutions of nonlinear PDEs. A two-layer 2D CNN is able to solve particular PDEs, so called Reaction-Diffusion Equations. This particular topology of CNN has been called RD-CNN. A silicon implementation of this architecture is presented.