Cognitive Processing Hardware Elements

Hoplite Systems LLC proposes to implement the Soar cognitive architecture within a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). This system, called the RAISE (Reconfigurable Architecture for Improved Soar Execution) will demonstrate that an FPGA's parallel, reconfigurable, multi-clock capabilities enable significantly better Soar processing performance than a traditional CPU. Hoplite will also develop the Graphical User Interface needed to enter and send production rules to the FPGA/Soar system. Both the RAISE software and the hardware will be tested using a traditional problem for evaluating decision-making processes.