Nonlinear Dynamics in Cellular Wave Computing
Session Organiser:
Tamás Roska
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Institute for Computer Science and Control
Abstract:
The main theme is also related to Non-Boolean nanoscale Architectures and Algorithms, as well as the related nonlinear phenomena, such as stability, synchronization, bio related and mission critical applications.
Configurable Neuromorphic Systems
Session Organiser:
Alexander Rast
School Of Computer Science
University of Manchester
Abstract:
Early neuromorphic devices were relatively small-scale and hard-wired: fixed-function devices that implemented a given neural model. However in recent years it has become clear that both for biological neural modelling and computational applications, it may not be at all clear at the outset what the “right” neural model should be. There is an emerging need for systems that offer some level of configurability, either to change the running model on-chip, or to assemble models from “building-block”-like components on chips that appear similar to a “neural FPGA”. Furthermore, if these chips are to address the large-scale modelling requirements of the future, they will need to be scalable to orders of millions or even billions of synapses.
Memristor Technology in Nonlinear Dynamical Circuits
Session Organiser:
Fernando Corinto
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications
Politecnico di Torino
Abstract:
The history of the memristor dates back in 1971 when the existence of a fourth fundamental component of electrical circuits beyond resistors, capacitors and inductors was postulated by L.O. Chua. A big step forward took place in 2008 when a nanoscale device showing memristor properties was discovered in the laboratories of Hewlett Packard. Today, memristor represents the latest technology breakthrough and the potential leading factor of future trends in electronics. Notably, the interest towards such class of devices is motivated by different reasons among which the possibility to build electronics devices with characteristics that show an intriguing resemblance to the brain’s synapses and the opportunity of adopting them as models of nonlinear phenomena.
This special session aims to provide a broad survey on recent trends on memristor, including recent advances of memristor technology in nonlinear dynamical circuits. The special session includes five contributed papers that will deal with the key research topics on memristor technology in nonlinear dynamical circuits, such as methods for the modelling and the emulation of memristor, the emergence of nonlinear dynamics (like bursting spike patterns and memristors-based neuronal spike event generator) in memristor-based neural circuits and the design of chaotic circuit by using memristors.
Applications of Mathematical Methods in Circuits and Systems Design
Session Organiser:
Angela Slavova
Department of Mathematical Physics
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Abstract:
The traditional use of mathematics in engineering disciplines is via mathematical modeling – concepts and interactions in the problem domain are mapped to objects and relationships of a specific mathematical topic and then the formal deductions within the topic are re-interpreted in the problem domain. First paper in the special session is structured review of mathematical methods in circuits and systems design and the identification of mathematical topics applicable to each step of the design flow.
The proposed special session illustrates these themes by a sampling of mathematical techniques applicable to analysis of modeling and simulation, partitioning, structural and behavioral decomposition, and symbolic reasoning about behavior. The session is aimed at illustrating the importance of mathematics in circuits and systems design, especially in the development of various tools, which are critical for design. The audience will be made to appreciate how some of the tools which are used by designers actually have some very deep mathematics built into them, without which it would be impossible for any automation in the design process. This mathematics becomes more important as we go to high complexity designs involving millions of transistors, high frequencies and systems-on-chip.
Problems and Solutions on Mega Core Array Architectures
Session Organiser:
Péter Szolgay
Faculty of Information Technology
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest
Abstract:
We are witnessing emerging many core architectures including different kinds of resources and processors, such as logic processors (Configurable logic blocks), arithmetic processors (DSP blocks) and Microblaze are in the same chip or computing together, conforming the Hybrid Multicore Systems.
Using the cellular architecture of processor and memory arrays new kind of thinking in algorithmic design has been required, namely the neighborhood relation between the processing elements is a key parameter. In the implementation of a problem the speed-power-area-bandwidth- accuracy parameters have to be handled simultaneously and optimized.
In the contributions of this special session different kind of array platforms analysed (FPGAs, GPUs or DSP based).