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SpiNNaker multicore SoC
General Info
Designer	APT Advanced Processor Technologies Research Group
Market	Artificial Intelligence
Introduction	20th May, 2011 (launched)
General Specs
Frequency	200MHz
Neuromorphic Specs
Neurons	1,000,000,000
Microarchitecture
ISA	ARM9 (ARM)
Microarchitecture	ARM968
Die	102mm² 10.386mm × 9.786mm
MCP	Yes (2 dies)
Cores	18
Max Memory	128MB (chip), 7TB (system)
Multiprocessing
Max SMP	1,036,800 (system)-Way (Multiprocessor)
Electrical
Power dissipation	1W (chip), 90kW (system)

Project SpiNNaker (an abbreviation for "spiking neural network (SNN) architecture") is a research project by the APT - Advanced Processor Technologies Research Group of the University of Manchester. In its full configuration, the system consists of 1,036,800 ARM9 cores that are capable of simulating up to one billion neurons in real time.

Overview

The SpiNNaker engine is using the SpiNNaker multicore System-On-Chip (SoC) as single nodes. Each chip contains two dies: The first die holds 18 ARM968 cores, 32kB SRAM, 64kB data tightly coupled memory (DTCM) per core, 32kB instruction tightly coupled memory (ITCM) per core, an Ethernet interface and a custom interconnect fabric. The second die within the SoC holds 128MB of shared SDRAM.

References

• Furber et al. "Overview of the SpiNNaker System Architecture" IEEE Transactions On Computers, Vol. 62, No. 12, December 2013