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A novel high-fan-in differential superconductor neuron structure designed for ultra-high-performance Spiking Neural Network (SNN) accelerators is presented. Utilizing a high-fan-in neuron structure allows us to design SNN accelerators with…

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are brain-inspired mathematical models with the ability to process information in the form of spikes. SNNs are expected to provide not only new machine-learning algorithms, but also energy-efficient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Yusuke Sakemi , Kai Morino , Takashi Morie , Kazuyuki Aihara

We consider adiabatic superconducting cells operating as an artificial neuron and synapse of a multilayer perceptron (MLP). Their compact circuits contain just one and two Josephson junctions, respectively. While the signal is represented…

Computational hardware designed to mimic biological neural networks holds the promise to resolve the drastically growing global energy demand of artificial intelligence. A wide variety of hardware concepts have been proposed, and among…

All-optical binary convolution with a photonic spiking vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) neuron is proposed and demonstrated experimentally for the first time. Optical inputs, extracted from digital images and temporally…

Neural processing systems typically represent data using leaky integrate and fire (LIF) neuron models that generate spikes or pulse trains at a rate proportional to their input amplitudes. This mechanism requires high firing rates when…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Manu V Nair , Giacomo Indiveri

The Artificial Intelligence models pose serious challenges in intensive computing and high-bandwidth communication for conventional electronic circuit-based computing clusters. Silicon photonic technologies, owing to their high speed, low…

Nanomagnets driven by spin currents provide a natural implementation for a neuron and a synapse: currents allow convenient summation of multiple inputs, while the magnet provides the threshold function. The objective of this paper is to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-27 Vinh Quang Diep , Brian Sutton , Behtash Behin-Aein , Supriyo Datta

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained significant attention in edge computing due to their low power consumption and computational efficiency. However, existing implementations either use conventional System on Chip (SoC) architectures…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Kanishka Gunawardana , Sanka Peeris , Kavishka Rambukwella , Thamish Wanduragala , Saadia Jameel , Roshan Ragel , Isuru Nawinne

Spiking neural networks (SNN) provide a new computational paradigm capable of highly parallelized, real-time processing. Photonic devices are ideal for the design of high-bandwidth, parallel architectures matching the SNN computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Luis El Srouji , Yun-Jhu Lee , Mehmet Berkay On , Li Zhang , S. J. Ben Yoo

Analog, low-voltage electronics show great promise in producing silicon neurons (SiNs) with unprecedented levels of energy efficiency. Yet, their inherently high susceptibility to process, voltage and temperature (PVT) variations, and noise…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-30 Tai Miyazaki Kirby , Luka Ribar , Rodolphe Sepulchre

Over the past decade Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) have emerged as one of the popular architectures to emulate the brain. In SNN, information is temporally encoded and communication between neurons is accomplished by means of spikes. In…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Abhronil Sengupta , Aparajita Banerjee , Kaushik Roy

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the development of artificial intelligence circuits and systems for edge computing applications. In-memory computing mixed-signal neuromorphic architectures provide promising ultra-low-power…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Arianna Rubino , Can Livanelioglu , Ning Qiao , Melika Payvand , Giacomo Indiveri

Multiple controllable spiking patterns are obtained in a 1310 nm Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) in response to induced perturbations and for two different cases of polarized optical injection, namely parallel and orthogonal.…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-20 Antonio Hurtado , Julien Javaloyes

Brain-inspired neuromorphic technologies can offer important advantages over classical digital clock-based technologies in various domains, including systems and control engineering. Indeed, neuromorphic engineering could provide…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Elena Petri , Koen J. A. Scheres , Erik Steur , W. P. M. H. , Heemels

We present an array of leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neuron circuits designed for the second-generation BrainScaleS mixed-signal 65-nm CMOS neuromorphic hardware. The neuronal array is embedded in the analog network core of a scaled-down…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-28 Syed Ahmed Aamir , Yannik Stradmann , Paul Müller , Christian Pehle , Andreas Hartel , Andreas Grübl , Johannes Schemmel , Karlheinz Meier

Deep 'Analog Artificial Neural Networks' (ANNs) perform complex classification problems with remarkably high accuracy. However, they rely on humongous amount of power to perform the calculations, veiling the accuracy benefits. The…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Parami Wijesinghe , Aayush Ankit , Abhronil Sengupta , Kaushik Roy

Any large-scale spiking neuromorphic system striving for complexity at the level of the human brain and beyond will need to be co-optimized for communication and computation. Such reasoning leads to the proposal for optoelectronic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Bryce A. Primavera , Jeffrey M. Shainline

Spiking Neural Networks have earned increased recognition in recent years owing to their biological plausibility and event-driven computation. Spiking neurons are the fundamental building components of Spiking Neural Networks. Those neurons…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Amr Nabil , T. Nandha Kumar , Haider Abbas F. Almurib

Implantable Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) are promising for motor rehabilitation and mobility augmentation, and they demand accurate and energy-efficient algorithms. In this paper, we propose a novel spiking neural network (SNN) decoder…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 Jiawei Liao , Oscar Toomey , Xiaying Wang , Lars Widmer , Cynthia A. Chestek , Luca Benini , Taekwang Jang