NeuralWorks® Professional II/PLUS is the world standard for full-featured, extensible neural network development environments. The Professional II/PLUS package contains comprehensive documentation that addresses the entire neural network development and deployment process, including a tutorial, a guide to neural computing, standard and advanced reference manuals, and platform-specific installation and user guides.

NeuralWorks Professional II/PLUS includes a proprietary Instanet facility that supports quickly generating a neural network based on one of the standard neural network architectures found in the neural network literature. After a network is created, all parameters associated with it can be directly modified to fine tune the network based on the target domain. Professional II/PLUS also includes features such as performance-based methods to inhibit over-fitting, automatic optimization of hidden layer size and a facility for pruning hidden units, and an Explain facility that identifies which network inputs most influence output.

Designer Pack

Designer Pack is a powerful deployment extension that works seamlessly with Professional II/PLUS. Designer Pack generates ANSI standard C source code for a neural network developed with Professional II/PLUS. The source code can then be compiled and linked into user-written applications for use in the target domain. Selective attributes and characteristics of the network can be dynamically modified by the deployed application without having to regenerate the network in Professional II/PLUS. While the network architecture cannot be modified, the network can be retrained and/or simply executed by the deployed application, and network files can be transferred between Professional II/PLUS and the deployed application platform.

If you need to develop neural network solutions for mainframes, mini-computers, or custom hardware, the Professional II/PLUS Designer Pack add-on is the answer. The combination of Professional II/PLUS and Designer Pack provides a comprehensive application development development environment from prototyping to enterprise deployment, based on ANSI standard C. You can create, test, debug, and deploy full-featured neural network applications. Neural network applications developed with Designer Pack can also be targeted for use in ROM, EPROM, or EEPROM embedded applications.

User-Defined Neuro-Dynamics

User-Defined Neuro-Dynamics (UDND) comprises a research extension for Professional II/PLUS that supports designing new neural network paradigms that can then be incorporated into the Professional II/PLUS platform and used to develop and deploy applications based on the new paradigm. Key neural network elements that can be customized with UDND include network topology, processing element neuro-dynamics, the network control strategy, and learning/recall schedule parameter definitions.

After the basic network architecture is defined, customized summation, transfer, learning, noise, output, and error functions can be written in C and then compiled and linked as Windows Dynamic Linked Libraries (DLLs) or Linux/UNIX Shared Objects (SOs) for use in the architecture. UDND supports checkpoint processing and special event processing, so that external programs can be activated during either network training or recall. All critical network events, such as Network Loaded, Network Saved, Learn Start, Learn Complete, Recall Start, and Recall Complete generate software interrupts that can be trapped and handled by application dependent mechanisms.