SPANNER: A Self-Repairing Spiking Neural Network Hardware Architecture
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems(2018)
摘要
Recent research has shown that a glial cell of astrocyte underpins a self-repair mechanism in the human brain, where spiking neurons provide direct and indirect feedbacks to presynaptic terminals. These feedbacks modulate the synaptic transmission probability of release (PR). When synaptic faults occur, the neuron becomes silent or near silent due to the low PR of synapses; whereby the PRs of remaining healthy synapses are then increased by the indirect feedback from the astrocyte cell. In this paper, a novel hardware architecture of Self-rePAiring spiking Neural NEtwoRk (SPANNER) is proposed, which mimics this self-repairing capability in the human brain. This paper demonstrates that the hardware can self-detect and self-repair synaptic faults without the conventional components for the fault detection and fault repairing. Experimental results show that SPANNER can maintain the system performance with fault densities of up to 40%, and more importantly SPANNER has only a 20% performance degradation when the self-repairing architecture is significantly damaged at a fault density of 80%.
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Astrocytes,electronic systems,fault tolerance,field-programmable gate array (FPGA),hardware,self-repair,spiking neural network (SNN)
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