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Machine learning is yielding unprecedented interest in research and industry, due to recent success in many applied contexts such as image classification and object recognition. However, the deployment of these systems requires huge…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Nassim Abderrahmane , Edgar Lemaire , Benoît Miramond

Emulating chip functionality before silicon production is crucial, especially with the increasing prevalence of RISC-V-based designs. FPGAs are promising candidates for such purposes due to their high-speed and reconfigurable architecture.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Elias Perdomo , Alexander Kropotov , Francelly Cano , Syed Zafar , Teresa Cervero , Xavier Martorell , Behzad Salami

Robust fitting of geometric models is a fundamental task in many computer vision pipelines. Numerous innovations have been produced on the topic, from improving the efficiency and accuracy of random sampling heuristics to generating novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Tam Ngoc-Bang Nguyen , Anh-Dzung Doan , Zhipeng Cai , Tat-Jun Chin

This chapter provides a comprehensive survey of the researches and motivations for hardware implementation of reservoir computing (RC) on neuromorphic electronic systems. Due to its computational efficiency and the fact that training…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Fatemeh Hadaeghi

This paper introduces a novel approach in neuromorphic computing, integrating heterogeneous hardware nodes into a unified, massively parallel architecture. Our system transcends traditional single-node constraints, harnessing the neural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Murat Isik , Jonathan Naoukin , I. Can Dikmen

As the demand for compute power in traditional neural networks has increased significantly, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a potential solution to increasingly power-hungry neural networks. By operating on 0/1 spikes emitted…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Andrew Fan , Simon D. Levy

In the last decade, special purpose computing systems, such as Neuromorphic computing, have become very popular in the field of computer vision and machine learning for classification tasks. In 2015, IBM's released the TrueNorth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Md Zahangir Alom , Theodore Josue , Md Nayim Rahman , Will Mitchell , Chris Yakopcic , Tarek M. Taha

When trained as generative models, Deep Learning algorithms have shown exceptional performance on tasks involving high dimensional data such as image denoising and super-resolution. In an increasingly connected world dominated by mobile and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Ian Colbert , Jake Daly , Ken Kreutz-Delgado , Srinjoy Das

IBM TrueNorth chip uses digital spikes to perform neuromorphic computing and achieves ultrahigh execution parallelism and power efficiency. However, in TrueNorth chip, low quantization resolution of the synaptic weights and spikes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Wei Wen , Chunpeng Wu , Yandan Wang , Kent Nixon , Qing Wu , Mark Barnell , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Exploring and understanding the functioning of the human brain is one of the greatest challenges for current research. Neuromorphic engineering tries to address this challenge by abstracting biological mechanisms and translating them into…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 René Harmann , Lukas Sohlbach , Fernando Perez-Peña , Karsten Schmidt

The IBM Neural Computer (INC) is a highly flexible, re-configurable parallel processing system that is intended as a research and development platform for emerging machine intelligence algorithms and computational neuroscience. It consists…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Pritish Narayanan , Charles E. Cox , Alexis Asseman , Nicolas Antoine , Harald Huels , Winfried W. Wilcke , Ahmet S. Ozcan

Neuromorphic engineering combines the architectural and computational principles of systems neuroscience with semiconductor electronics, with the aim of building efficient and compact devices that mimic the synaptic and neural machinery of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-07-02 Daniel Martí , Mattia Rigotti , Mingoo Seok , Stefano Fusi

Neuromorphic devices represent an attempt to mimic aspects of the brain's architecture and dynamics with the aim of replicating its hallmark functional capabilities in terms of computational power, robust learning and energy efficiency. We…

We present a novel software feature for the BrainScaleS-2 accelerated neuromorphic platform that facilitates the partitioned emulation of large-scale spiking neural networks. This approach is well suited for deep spiking neural networks and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Elias Arnold , Philipp Spilger , Jan V. Straub , Eric Müller , Dominik Dold , Gabriele Meoni , Johannes Schemmel

There is a growing necessity for edge training to adapt to dynamically changing environment. Neuromorphic computing represents a significant pathway for high-efficiency intelligent computation in energy-constrained edges, but existing…

Mixed-precision neural networks (MPNNs) that enable the use of just enough data width for a deep learning task promise significant advantages of both inference accuracy and computing overhead. FPGAs with fine-grained reconfiguration…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Erjing Luo , Haitong Huang , Cheng Liu , Guoyu Li , Bing Yang , Ying Wang , Huawei Li , Xiaowei Li

Memristors have shown promising features for enhancing neuromorphic computing concepts and AI hardware accelerators. In this paper, we present a user-friendly software infrastructure that allows emulating a wide range of neuromorphic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Jinqi Huang , Spyros Stathopoulos , Alex Serb , Themis Prodromakis

Deep neural networks are an extremely successful and widely used technique for various pattern recognition and machine learning tasks. Due to power and resource constraints, these computationally intensive networks are difficult to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Thorbjörn Posewsky , Daniel Ziener

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are computational models inspired by the structure and dynamics of biological neuronal networks. Their event-driven nature enables them to achieve high energy efficiency, particularly when deployed on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ashish Gautam , Prasanna Date , Shruti Kulkarni , Robert Patton , Thomas Potok

Deep neural network (DNN) inference relies increasingly on specialized hardware for high computational efficiency. This work introduces a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based dynamically configurable accelerator featuring systolic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Anastasios Petropoulos , Theodore Antonakopoulos