Self-Organizing Machine Architecture

SOMA is a collaborative project involving researchers in France and Switzerland, which aims to develop a computing machine with self-organising properties inspired by the functioning of the brain. The SOMA project addresses this challenge by lying at the intersection of four main research fields, namely adaptive reconfigurable computing, cellular computing, computational neuroscience, and neuromorphic engineering. In the framework of SOMA, we designed the SCALP platform, a 3D array of FPGAs and processors permitting to prototype and evaluate self-organisation mechanisms on physical cellular machines.