IBM
ZISC:
Zero
Instruction Set Computer
An ISA card with 16 ZISC chips providing 576 neurons.
- The
ZISC036 chip was developed at the IBM
Essonnes Lab
near Paris and first introduced in 1994 [Refs
and Links].
- [Aug.26.2002
- the IBM
ZISC site is no longer available so links previously here are disconnected.
See the ZISC references for
info on other companies using the chip and developing an enhanced version.
E.g. Silicon Recognition now sells
a 78 neuron version of the chip and products with the chips such as
ZISC accelerator cards].
- Their
site discusses several application including:
- Passenger
counting system for public transportation.
- Image
processing including edge detection and noise suppression.
- Visual
inspection system.
- A
single ZISC036 holds 36 neurons,
or prototypes,
to implement an RBF network trained with the RCE (or ROI) algorithm.
- The
chip is sold directly or in three card formats:
- ISA card :
16 chips with 576
prototypes. Multiple cards can be changed
for additional prototypes.
- SIZM :
6 chips
in a SIMM type card, intended for easy system expansion.
- PCI card
: holds 1 chip
plus expansion slots for up to 3 SIZM
cards to provide up to 684
prototypes.
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