MODEL CALCULATION UNIT AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR CALCULATING A NEURON LAYER OF A MULTI-LAYERED PERCEPTRON MODEL

摘要

The invention relates to a model calculation unit for calculating a neuron layer of a multi-layered perceptron model, comprising a hardwired calculation core formed in hardware for calculating a fixedly preset computing algorithm in coupled functional blocks. The calculation core is designed to calculate an output variable for each neuron in a neuron layer of a multi-layered perceptron model having a number of neurons, depending on one or more input variables of an input variable vector, on a weighting matrix with weighting factors and an offset value predefined for each neuron. A sum of the values of the input variables, which are weighted with a weighting factor determined by the neuron and the input variable, and the offset value predefined for the neuron is calculated for each neuron, and the result is transformed with an activation function to obtain the output variable for the neuron.