Realizing TDNN for Word Recognition on a Wavefront Toroidal Mesh-array Neurocomputer

In this paper, we propose a scheme that maps the time-delay neural network (TDNN) into the neurocomputer called EMIND-II which has the wavefront toroidal mesh-array structure. This neurocomputer is scalable, consists of many timeshared virtual neurons, is equipped with programmable on-chip learning, and is versatile for building many types of neural networks. Also we define the programming model of this array and derive the parallel algorithms about TDNN for the proposed neurocomputer EMIND-II. In addition, the computational complexities for the parallel and serial algorithms are compared. Finally, we introduce an application of this neurocomputer to word recognition.