Extending BrainScaleS OS for BrainScaleS-2

Eric Müller; Christian Mauch; Philipp Spilger; Oliver Julien Breitwieser; Johann Klähn; David Stöckel; Timo Wunderlich; Johannes Schemmel

Extending BrainScaleS OS for BrainScaleS-2

Neural and Evolutionary Computing 2020-04-01 v1

Authors: Eric Müller , Christian Mauch , Philipp Spilger , Oliver Julien Breitwieser , Johann Klähn , David Stöckel , Timo Wunderlich , Johannes Schemmel

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Abstract

BrainScaleS-2 is a mixed-signal accelerated neuromorphic system targeted for research in the fields of computational neuroscience and beyond-von-Neumann computing. To augment its flexibility, the analog neural network core is accompanied by an embedded SIMD microprocessor. The BrainScaleS Operating System (BrainScaleS OS) is a software stack designed for the user-friendly operation of the BrainScaleS architectures. We present and walk through the software-architectural enhancements that were introduced for the BrainScaleS-2 architecture. Finally, using a second-version BrainScaleS-2 prototype we demonstrate its application in an example experiment based on spike-based expectation maximization.

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neuromorphic computing

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@article{arxiv.2003.13750,
  title  = {Extending BrainScaleS OS for BrainScaleS-2},
  author = {Eric Müller and Christian Mauch and Philipp Spilger and Oliver Julien Breitwieser and Johann Klähn and David Stöckel and Timo Wunderlich and Johannes Schemmel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.13750},
  year   = {2020}
}

Extending BrainScaleS OS for BrainScaleS-2

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