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Brain Computer Interface (BCI) has great potential for solving many brain signal analysis limitations, mental disorder resolutions, and restoring missing limb functionality via neural-controlled implants. However, there is no single…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zag ElSayed , Murat Ozer , Nelly Elsayed , Magdy Bayoumi

Photonic computing chips have made significant progress in accelerating linear computations, but nonlinear computations are usually implemented in the digital domain, which introduces additional system latency and power consumption, and…

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are artificial neural networks based on simulated biological neurons and have attracted much attention in recent artificial intelligence technology studies. The dendrites in biological neurons have efficient…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-14 Wuque Cai , Hongze Sun , Jiayi He , Qianqian Liao , Yunliang Zang , Duo Chen , Dezhong Yao , Daqing Guo

The apparent stochasticity of in-vivo neural circuits has long been hypothesized to represent a signature of ongoing stochastic inference in the brain. More recently, a theoretical framework for neural sampling has been proposed, which…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-03-14 Mihai A. Petrovici , Ilja Bytschok , Johannes Bill , Johannes Schemmel , Karlheinz Meier

We report a multi-modal spiking neuron that allows optical and electronic input and control, and wavelength-multiplexing operation, for use in novel high-speed neuromorphic sensing and computing functionalities. The photonic-electronic…

This short report describes the scaling, up to 1024 software processes and hardware cores, of a distributed simulator of plastic spiking neural networks. A previous report demonstrated good scalability of the simulator up to 128 processes.…

This paper introduces an analog spiking neuron that utilizes time-domain information, i.e., a time interval of two signal transitions and a pulse width, to construct a spiking neural network (SNN) for a hardware-friendly physical reservoir…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Nanako Kimura , Ckristian Duran , Zolboo Byambadorj , Ryosho Nakane , Tetsuya Iizuka

A brain-computer interface (BCI) facilitates direct interaction between the brain and external devices. To concurrently achieve high decoding accuracy and low energy consumption in invasive BCIs, we propose a novel spiking neural network…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Haotian Fu , Peng Zhang , Song Yang , Herui Zhang , Ziwei Wang , Dongrui Wu

This paper presents a configurable Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator (CNNA) for a System on Chip design (SoC). The goal was to accelerate inference of different deep learning networks on an embedded SoC platform. The presented CNNA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Kim Bjerge , Jonathan Horsted Schougaard , Daniel Ejnar Larsen

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are an advanced fusion of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, requiring stable and long-term decoding of neural signals. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), with their neuronal dynamics and spike-based…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Yu Song , Liyuan Han , Bo Xu , Tielin Zhang

Neuromorphic computing aims to reproduce the energy efficiency and adaptability of biological intelligence in hardware. Superconducting devices are an attractive platform due to their ultra-low dissipation and fast switching dynamics. Here…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-17 Khalil Harrabi , Leonardo Cadorim , Milorad Milosevic

Spiking artificial neurons emulate the voltage spikes of biological neurons, and constitute the building blocks of a new class of energy efficient, neuromorphic computing systems. Antiferromagnetic materials can, in theory, be used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-19 Hannah Bradley , Steven Louis , Cody Trevillian , Lily Quach , Elena Bankowski , Andrei Slavin , Vasyl Tyberkevych

Solving constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) is a notoriously expensive computational task. Recently, it has been proposed that efficient stochastic solvers can be obtained through appropriately configured spiking neural networks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Jonathan Binas , Giacomo Indiveri , Michael Pfeiffer

We present the Bio-Silicon Intelligence System (BSIS), an innovative hybrid platform that integrates biological neural networks with silicon-based computing. The BSIS, a Physics-Informed Hybrid Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning State…

This work describes the investigation of neuromorphic computing-based spiking neural network (SNN) models used to filter data from sensor electronics in high energy physics experiments conducted at the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider.…

Biologically plausible and energy-efficient frameworks such as Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have not been sufficiently explored in low-level vision tasks. Taking image deraining as an example, this study addresses the representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shuang Chen , Tomas Krajnik , Farshad Arvin , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

As the limits of traditional von Neumann computing come into view, the brain's ability to communicate vast quantities of information using low-power spikes has become an increasing source of inspiration for alternative architectures. Key to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-02 Emily Toomey , Ken Segall , Matteo Castellani , Marco Colangelo , Nancy Lynch , Karl K. Berggren

A spiking neuron ``computes'' by transforming a complex dynamical input into a train of action potentials, or spikes. The computation performed by the neuron can be formulated as dimensional reduction, or feature detection, followed by a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Blaise Aguera y Arcas , Adrienne L. Fairhall , William Bialek

In terms of the long-distance communication of a single neuron, interpulse intervals (IPIs) are a possible alternative to rate and binary codes. As a proxy for IPI, the time-to-spike (TTS) for a neuron can be found in the biophysical and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-15 Chandan Singh , William B. Levy

In this work, we propose a `1-transistor 1-nanotrack' (1T1N) synapse based on movement of magnetic skyrmions using spin polarised current pulses. The proposed synaptic bit-cell has 4 terminals and fully decoupled spike transmission- and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Tinish Bhattacharya , Sai Li , Yangqi Huang , Wang Kang , Weisheng Zhao , Manan Suri