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The BrainScaleS-2 SoC integrates analog neuron and synapse circuits with digital periphery, including two CPUs with SIMD extensions. Each ASIC is connected to a Node-FPGA, providing experiment control and Ethernet connectivity. This work…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Joscha Ilmberger , Johannes Schemmel

We present an analogue Very Large Scale Integration (aVLSI) implementation that uses first-order lowpass filters to implement a conductance-based silicon neuron for high-speed neuromorphic systems. The aVLSI neuron consists of a soma (cell…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-04 Runchun Wang , Chetan Singh Thakur , Tara Julia Hamilton , Jonathan Tapson , Andre van Schaik

The increasing need for compact and low-power computing solutions for machine learning applications has triggered significant interest in energy-efficient neuromorphic systems. However, most of these architectures rely on spiking neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Manu V Nair , Giacomo Indiveri

Replacing electrons with photons is a compelling route towards light-speed, highly parallel, and low-power artificial intelligence computing. Recently, all-optical diffractive neural deep neural networks have been demonstrated. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-19 Xuhao Luo , Yueqiang Hu , Xin Li , Xiangnian Ou , Jiajie Lai , Na Liu , Huigao Duan

Oscillatory dynamics have recently proven highly effective in machine learning (ML), particularly through State-Space-Models (SSM) that leverage structured linear recurrences for long-range temporal processing. Resonate-and-Fire neurons…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Angqi Liu , Filippo Moro , Sebastian Billaudelle , Melika Payvand

The steady-state firing rate and firing-rate response of the leaky and exponential integrate-and-fire models receiving synaptic shot noise with excitatory and inhibitory reversal potentials is examined. For the particular case where the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-13 Magnus J E Richardson

Heterogeneous systems with analog CMOS circuits integrated with nanoscale memristive devices enable efficient deployment of neural networks on neuromorphic hardware. CMOS Neuron with low footprint can emulate slow temporal dynamics by…

The need to repeatedly shuttle around synaptic weight values from memory to processing units has been a key source of energy inefficiency associated with hardware implementation of artificial neural networks. Analog in-memory computing…

With the rising societal demand for more information-processing capacity with lower power consumption, alternative architectures inspired by the parallelism and robustness of the human brain have recently emerged as possible solutions. In…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-02 Emily Toomey , Ken Segall , Karl K. Berggren

Event-based neuromorphic systems provide a low-power solution by using artificial neurons and synapses to process data asynchronously in the form of spikes. Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions (FTJs) are ultra low-power memory devices and are…

Brain-inspired neuromorphic computing is a promising path towards next generation analogue computers that are fundamentally different compared to the conventional von Neumann architecture. One model for neuromorphic computing that can mimic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-22 Verena Brehm , Johannes W. Austefjord , Serban Lepadatu , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

The adaptive leaky integrate-and-fire (ALIF) model is fundamental within computational neuroscience and has been instrumental in studying our brains $\textit{in silico}$. Due to the sequential nature of simulating these neural models, a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Luke Taylor , Andrew J King , Nicol S Harper

Efficient Balanced Networks (EBNs) are networks of spiking neurons in which excitatory and inhibitory synaptic currents are balanced on a short timescale, leading to desirable coding properties such as high encoding precision, low firing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Julian Büchel , Jonathan Kakon , Michel Perez , Giacomo Indiveri

This paper introduces a groundbreaking digital neuromorphic architecture that innovatively integrates Brain Code Unit (BCU) and Fundamental Code Unit (FCU) using mixedsignal design methodologies. Leveraging open-source datasets and the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Murat Isik , Sols Miziev , Wiktoria Pawlak , Newton Howard

In this work we develop a simple equivalent circuit model (ECM) that predicts the spectral response of a lumped-element loaded single patterned layer reflective metasurface. The proposed ECM maintains accuracy across varying design…

The rapid growth of brain-inspired computing coupled with the inefficiencies in the CMOS implementations of neuromrphic systems has led to intense exploration of efficient hardware implementations of the functional units of the brain,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Indranil Chakraborty , Gobinda Saha , Abhronil Sengupta , Kaushik Roy

We introduce CORTEX, an algorithmic framework designed for large-scale brain simulation. Leveraging the computational capacity of the Fugaku Supercomputer, CORTEX maximizes available problem size and processing performance. Our primary…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Tianxiang Lyu , Mitsuhisa Sato , Shigeki Aoki , Ryutaro Himeno , Zhe Sun

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

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices display volatile characteristics, and are not well suited for analog applications such as neuromorphic computing. Spintronic devices, on the other hand, exhibit both non-volatile and…