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Energy efficiency and low latency are crucial requirements for designing wearable AI-empowered human activity recognition systems, due to the hard constraints of battery operations and closed-loop feedback. While neural network models have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Sizhen Bian , Michele Magno

Neuromorphic computing is a new paradigm for design of both the computing hardware and algorithms inspired by biological neural networks. The event-based nature and the inherent parallelism make neuromorphic computing a promising paradigm…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Sebastian Glatz , Julien N. P. Martel , Raphaela Kreiser , Ning Qiao , Yulia Sandamirskaya

This paper presents a massively parallel and scalable neuromorphic cortex simulator designed for simulating large and structurally connected spiking neural networks, such as complex models of various areas of the cortex. The main novelty of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Runchun Wang , Chetan Singh Thakur , Andre van Schaik

Superconductor electronics (SCE) appear promising for low energy applications. However, the achieved and projected circuit densities are insufficient for direct competition with CMOS technology. Original algorithms and nontraditional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-24 Evan B. Golden , Vasili K. Semenov , Sergey K. Tolpygo

This paper presents microwatt end-to-end neural signal processing hardware for deployment-stage real-time upper-limb movement intent decoding. This module features intercellular spike detection, sorting, and decoding operations for a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-14 Zhewei Jiang , Jiangyi Li , Pavan K. Chundi , Sung Justin Kim , Minhao Yang , Joonseong Kang , Seungchul Jung , Sang Joon Kim , Mingoo Seok

Spiking Neural Networks are a recent and new neural network design approach that promises tremendous improvements in power efficiency, computation efficiency, and processing latency. They do so by using asynchronous spike-based data flow,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Sambit Mohapatra , Thomas Mesquida , Mona Hodaei , Senthil Yogamani , Heinrich Gotzig , Patrick Mader

The recent progress of artificial intelligence (AI) has boosted the computational possibilities in fields where standard computers are not able to perform. The AI paradigm is to emulate human intelligence and therefore breaks the familiar…

Comprehensive understanding of the world's most energy efficient powerful computer, the human brain, is an elusive scientific issue. Still, already gained knowledge indicates memristors can be used as a building block to model the brain. At…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-06-20 Mohamed T. Ghoneim , Muhammad M. Hussain

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming modern life, yet the growing scale of AI applications places mounting demands on computational resources, raising sustainability concerns. Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) offer a promising…

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are powerful models of spatiotemporal computation and are well suited for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices and neuromorphic hardware due to their low power consumption. Leveraging attention…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Boxun Xu , Junyoung Hwang , Pruek Vanna-iampikul , Sung Kyu Lim , Peng Li

SpiNNaker is an ARM-based processor platform optimized for the simulation of spiking neural networks. This brief describes the roadmap in going from the current SPINNaker1 system, a 1 Million core machine in 130nm CMOS, to SpiNNaker2, a 10…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Christian Mayr , Sebastian Hoeppner , Steve Furber

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are brain-inspired, event-driven machine learning algorithms that have been widely recognized in producing ultra-high-energy-efficient hardware. Among existing SNNs, unsupervised SNNs based on synaptic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Mingyuan Meng , Xingyu Yang , Lei Bi , Jinman Kim , Shanlin Xiao , Zhiyi Yu

To improve artificial intelligence/autonomous systems and help with treating neurological conditions, there's a requirement for artificial neuron hardware that mimics biological. We examine experimental artificial neurons with quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-03 Osama M. Nayfeh , Haik Manukian , Matthew Kelly , Justin Mauger

In this work, we propose stochastic Binary Spiking Neural Network (sBSNN) composed of stochastic spiking neurons and binary synapses (stochastic only during training) that computes probabilistically with one-bit precision for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Minsuk Koo , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Yong Shim , Kaushik Roy

Biological sensing and processing is asynchronous and sparse, leading to low-latency and energy-efficient perception and action. In robotics, neuromorphic hardware for event-based vision and spiking neural networks promises to exhibit…

A time-domain analog-weighted-sum calculation model based on a pulse-width modulation (PWM) approach is proposed. The proposed calculation model can be applied to any types of network structure including multi-layer feedforward networks. We…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Masatoshi Yamaguchi , Goki Iwamoto , Hakaru Tamukoh , Takashi Morie

Multi-channel electrophysiology systems for recording of neuronal activity face significant data throughput limitations, hampering real-time, data-informed experiments. These limitations impact both experimental neurobiology research and…

Regarded as the third generation of neural networks, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have garnered significant traction due to their biological plausibility and energy efficiency. Recent advancements in large models necessitate spiking…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chenlin Zhou , Sihang Guo , Jiaqi Wang , Dongyang Ma , Jin Cheng , Qingyan Meng , Zhengyu Ma , Yonghong Tian

Due to the massive parallel computing capability and outstanding image and signal processing performance, cellular neural network (CNN) is one promising type of non-Boolean computing system that can outperform the traditional digital logic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Chenyun Pan , Azad Naeemi

Spikes are the currency in central nervous systems for information transmission and processing. They are also believed to play an essential role in low-power consumption of the biological systems, whose efficiency attracts increasing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Qiang Yu , Shenglan Li , Huajin Tang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang , Kay Chen Tan