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Did You Ever Hear Of A ZISC Processor?
April 24, 2008I accidentaly found this information on Wikipedia today and I must admit that I never heard of ZISC before.
ZISC stands for Zero Instruction Set Computer (just as RISC stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computer and CISC for Complex Instruction Set Computer). A ZISC processor doesn't use any instructions at all, it purely relies on pattern matching.
The concept was invented by Guy Paillet and is based on ideas from artificial neural networks and massively hardwired parallel processing. The first ZISC processor was the IBM ZISC36 containing 36 independent cells that can be thought of as neurons or parallel processors. Each of these can compare an input vector of up to 64 bytes with a similar vector stored in the cell's memory. If the pattern matches the number of the matched cell will be returned.
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Wangbu said,
on April 26, 2008:
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Juergen said,
on May 4, 2008:
Hi, It is just mapping Artificial Neural Network ideas onto how the human brain (supposedly) works. There is no Pentium or other processor and no dynamic or static memory blocks in our head, just sensors, preprocessing, processing and actuators. You basically switch transactions based on events that represent a certain transactional change pattern in context with the current status pattern, much like a state machine. Let' see how it develops, the main hurdle for introducing new technoloy is as usual the enineering community that rather sticks to what is known, very understandable, but a limiting factor. A new chip that just came out is to be found at www.recognetics.com Juergen
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