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As a step towards creating evolutionary developmental neural networks on FPGAs, a bio-inspired cellular structure suitable for online routing of axons and dendrites on FPGAs based on a new digital spiking neuron model (introduced previously by the authors) is proposed here. This structure is designed to allow changing the routing of the dendrites and axons and formation/elimination of synapses on the fly by dynamic partial reconfiguration of the LUTs. The feasibility and techniques for implementing this structure on a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA are also studied.
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Shayani, H., Bentley, P., Tyrrell, A.M. (2008). A Cellular Structure for Online Routing of Digital Spiking Neuron Axons and Dendrites on FPGAs. In: Hornby, G.S., Sekanina, L., Haddow, P.C. (eds) Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware. ICES 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5216. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85857-7_24
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