Summary: Information needed about how to generate thermal noise on chip.
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I am with the University of Milano - ITALY. I am working at a Boltzmann Machine simulator based on a systolic array of processors. Our main problem is, of course, noise generation inside the PEs.
I am currently using a noise generator in Host, and transfer continuosly into the machine, loosing lot of computational power both in the Host machine and in the systolic one.
I know of a novel Neural Chip developed at Bellcore, which simulates Boltzmann Machines using a chip level solution to generate noise.
I could not find in our department library anything about this, in particular I didn't found anything about GOMAC conference in which I know Alspector & Jayakumar presented research results.
If anyone can post me any information about this chip, or further bybliographical information on these authors, i wuold appreciate.
If anyone is also working at Boltzmann Machines, I would very much like to exchange informations and share results.
