Tanner Tools to Play Key Role in Development of Neuromorphic Chips at University of Pennsylvania Workshop; Participants to Go from Concept to Chip in Three Days with Help of Tools.PASADENA, Calif. -- Participants at a workshop sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania's Neuroengineering Research Lab will use Tanner EDA's tools to help design in three days chips for intricate neural networks. It is hoped that future versions of these kinds of chips will simulate the brain to help solve problems the biological brain does routinely. Workshop attendees will use ChipGen, a silicon compiler for neuromorphic chips developed at Penn using Tanner's L-Comp macros, part of a standard tool suite, which includes L-Edit(R) Layout, DRC DRC Democratic Republic of Congo DRC Down (Stage) Right Center DRC Director(ate) of Reserve Components DRC Disability Rights Commission (United Kingdom) , LVS LVS Linux Virtual Server LVS Live Vaccine Strain LVS Las Vegas, New Mexico (Airport Code) LVS Low Voltage Switchgear LVS Logistical Vehicle System LVS Laser Vibration Sensor LVS Logistics Vehicle System , Place and Route and T-Spice Pro(R). Tanner's standard tool suite has been used successfully to create a number of highly innovative and commercially successful products, including Bluetooth products, imaging chips used in the cameras on NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. Mars Rovers, advanced polymer displays, sensors and MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) Tiny mechanical devices that are built onto semiconductor chips and are measured in micrometers. In the research labs since the 1980s, MEMS devices began to materialize as commercial products in the mid-1990s. devices. "Flexible and easy-to-use software tools, such as Tanner's tools, are critical enablers to creating entirely new types of circuitry, such as the neural networks that we are working on," noted Kwabena Boahen, associate professor in the Bioengineering Department at the University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. . "We anticipate that the results of this workshop will help advance the important work in linking electronic circuitry and neurobiology Neurobiology Study of the development and function of the nervous system, with emphasis on how nerve cells generate and control behavior. The major goal of neurobiology is to explain at the molecular level how nerve cells differentiate and develop their and its applications in science and computing." Co-sponsored with Institute for Neuromorphic Engineering at the University of Maryland University of Maryland can refer to:
More information on the workshop is available at http://www.neuroengineering.upenn.edu/boahen/meth/fs_tools.htm. About Tanner EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. Tanner EDA is the worldwide leader in tools for analog/mixed signal ICs and MEMS design on the Windows(R) platform. Tanner EDA develops design capture, simulation, layout and verification software for analog and mixed signal ICs used in RF, imaging, biomedical, power management and other diverse applications. Tanner EDA's flagship products HiPer Verify, L-Edit Pro and T-Spice Pro provide a complete high performance design flow including schematic entry, waveform probing, full-custom layout editing, place and route, DRC and LVS verification, netlist extraction and circuit simulation. Founded in 1988, Tanner EDA is a division of privately held Tanner Research Inc., and can be found on the World Wide Web at www.tannereda.com. All brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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