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The efficiency of the human brain in performing classification tasks has attracted considerable research interest in brain-inspired neuromorphic computing. Hardware implementations of a neuromorphic system aims to mimic the computations in…

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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…

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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising for edge sensing due to their event-driven computation and temporal filtering capability. However, standard leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons communicate only through binary spikes, which…

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This paper presents the concepts behind the BrainScales (BSS) accelerated analog neuromorphic computing architecture. It describes the second-generation BrainScales-2 (BSS-2) version and its most recent in-silico realization, the HICANN-X…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Johannes Schemmel , Sebastian Billaudelle , Phillip Dauer , Johannes Weis

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) capture the information processing mechanism of the brain by taking advantage of spiking neurons, such as the Leaky Integrate-and-Fire (LIF) model neuron, which incorporates temporal dynamics and transmits…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Zexiang Yi , Jing Lian , Yunliang Qi , Zhaofei Yu , Huajin Tang , Yide Ma , Jizhao Liu

The neuromorphic BrainScaleS-2 ASIC comprises mixed-signal neurons and synapse circuits as well as two versatile digital microprocessors. Primarily designed to emulate spiking neural networks, the system can also operate in a vector-matrix…

Neuromorphic computing and spiking neural networks (SNN) mimic the behavior of biological systems and have drawn interest for their potential to perform cognitive tasks with high energy efficiency. However, some factors such as temporal…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Haowen Fang , Brady Taylor , Ziru Li , Zaidao Mei , Hai Li , Qinru Qiu

The spiking neural network (SNN) using leaky-integrated-and-fire (LIF) neurons has been commonly used in automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks. However, the LIF neuron is still relatively simple compared to that in the biological brain.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Minglun Han , Qingyu Wang , Tielin Zhang , Yi Wang , Duzhen Zhang , Bo Xu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer biologically inspired computation but remain underexplored for continuous regression tasks in scientific machine learning. In this work, we introduce and systematically evaluate Quadratic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ruyin Wan , George Em Karniadakis , Panos Stinis

Analog computing at the edge is an emerging strategy to limit data storage and transmission requirements, as well as energy consumption, and its practical implementation is in its initial stages of development. Translating properties of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Giuseppe Leo , Paolo Gibertini , Irem Ilter , Erika Covi , Ole Richter , Elisabetta Chicca

Limitations in processing capabilities and memory of today's computers make spiking neuron-based (human) whole-brain simulations inevitably characterized by a compromise between bio-plausibility and computational cost. It translates into…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-17 Gianluca Susi , Pilar Garces , Alessandro Cristini , Emanuele Paracone , Mario Salerno , Fernando Maestu , Ernesto Pereda

The increasing complexity and energy demands of large-scale neural networks, such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and Large Language Models (LLMs), challenge their practical deployment in edge applications due to high power consumption, area…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ckristian Duran , Nanako Kimura , Zolboo Byambadorj , Tetsuya Iizuka

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) use discrete spike sequences to transmit information, which significantly mimics the information transmission of the brain. Although this binarized form of representation dramatically enhances the energy…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Guobin Shen , Dongcheng Zhao , Yi Zeng

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising brain-inspired energy-efficient models. Compared to conventional deep Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), SNNs exhibit superior efficiency and capability to process temporal information. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yulong Huang , Xiaopeng Lin , Hongwei Ren , Haotian Fu , Yue Zhou , Zunchang Liu , Biao Pan , Bojun Cheng

Spintronic devices, such as the domain walls and skyrmions, have shown significant potential for applications in energy-efficient data storage and beyond CMOS computing architectures. In recent years, spiking neural networks have shown more…

Neuromorphic computing systems comprise networks of neurons that use asynchronous events for both computation and communication. This type of representation offers several advantages in terms of bandwidth and power consumption in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Saber Moradi , Ning Qiao , Fabio Stefanini , Giacomo Indiveri

Recently, Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) becomes the hotspot in the field of computer vision tasks. Without inductive bias, MLPs perform well on feature extraction and achieve amazing results. However, due to the simplicity of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Wenshuo Li , Hanting Chen , Jianyuan Guo , Ziyang Zhang , Yunhe Wang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising energy-efficient alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) by utilizing sparse and asynchronous processing through discrete spike-based computation. However, the performance of deep…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Eric Jahns , Davi Moreno , Michel A. Kinsy

Concurrent estimation and control of robotic systems remains an ongoing challenge, where controllers rely on data extracted from states/parameters riddled with uncertainties and noises. Framework suitability hinges on task complexity and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Reza Ahmadvand , Sarah Safura Sharif , Yaser Mike Banad

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are valued for their ability to process spatio-temporal information efficiently, offering biological plausibility, low energy consumption, and compatibility with neuromorphic hardware. However, the commonly…

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