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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are a natural computational model for on-sensor and near-sensor vision, where event driven processors must operate under strict power budgets with hard binary spikes. However, models trained with surrogate…

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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…

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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired alternative to conventional artificial neural networks, with potential advantages in power efficiency due to their event-driven computation. Despite their promise, SNNs have yet…

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Memristor based neural networks have great potentials in on-chip neuromorphic computing systems due to the fast computation and low-energy consumption. However, the imprecise properties of existing memristor devices generally result in…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Yaoyuan Wang , Shuang Wu , Ziyang Zhang , Lei Tian , Luping Shi

In this paper, we develop an in-memory analog computing (IMAC) architecture realizing both synaptic behavior and activation functions within non-volatile memory arrays. Spin-orbit torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (SOT-MRAM)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Mohammed Elbtity , Abhishek Singh , Brendan Reidy , Xiaochen Guo , Ramtin Zand

Spin Transfer Torque MRAMs are attractive due to their non-volatility, high density and zero leakage. However, STT-MRAMs suffer from poor reliability due to shared read and write paths. Additionally, conflicting requirements for data…

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This project explores the use of non-volatile synapses in neuromorphic computing for pattern recognition tasks through a comprehensive simulation-based approach. The main approach is through spintronic synapses, which leverage the…

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated their effectiveness in numerous vision tasks. However, their high processing requirements necessitate efficient hardware acceleration to meet the application's performance targets. In…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Petros Toupas , Zhewen Yu , Christos-Savvas Bouganis , Dimitrios Tzovaras

Biologically-inspired computing models have made significant progress in recent years, but the conventional von Neumann architecture is inefficient for the large-scale matrix operations and massive parallelism required by these models. This…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Siqing Fu , Lizhou Wu , Tiejun Li , Chunyuan Zhang , Jianmin Zhang , Sheng Ma

Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ)-based magnetic random-access memory (MRAM) is a promising platform for neuromorphic and in-memory computing owing to its non-volatility, high endurance, fast switching dynamics and CMOS compatibility. However,…

Spike sorting is a valuable tool in understanding brain regions. It assigns detected spike waveforms to their origins, helping to research the mechanism of the human brain and the development of implantable brain-machine interfaces (iBMIs).…

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Convolution neural networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable success, but typically accompany high computation cost and numerous redundant weight parameters. To reduce the FLOPs, structure pruning is a popular approach to remove the entire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Bo Ji , Tianyi Chen

In this paper, we study the inference accuracy of the Resistive Random Access Memory (ReRAM) neuromorphic circuit due to stuck-at faults (stuck-on, stuck-off, and stuck at a certain resistive value). A simulation framework using Python is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Vedant Sawal , Hiu Yung Wong

Recent advances have shown that SNN-based systems can efficiently perform unsupervised continual learning due to their bio-plausible learning rule, e.g., Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP). Such learning capabilities are especially…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Muhammad Shafique

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are widely deployed to solve complex pattern recognition, function approximation and image classification tasks. With the growing size and complexity of these networks, hardware implementation becomes…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-22 Anup Das , Yuefeng Wu , Khanh Huynh , Francesco Dell'Anna , Francky Catthoor , Siebren Schaafsma

Spiking Neural Network (SNN) inference has a clear potential for high energy efficiency as computation is triggered by events. However, the inherent sparsity of events poses challenges for conventional computing systems, driving the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Simone Manoni , Paul Scheffler , Luca Zanatta , Andrea Acquaviva , Luca Benini , Andrea Bartolini

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer inherent advantages for low-power inference through sparse, event-driven computation. However, the theoretical energy benefits of SNNs are often decoupled from real hardware performance due to the opaque…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Ilkin Aliyev , Jesus Lopez , Tosiron Adegbija

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) promise orders-of-magnitude lower power consumption and low-latency inference on neuromorphic hardware for a wide range of robotic tasks. In this work, we present an energy-efficient implementation of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Sirine Arfa , Bernhard Vogginger , Christian Mayr

Spiking neural network (SNN), as the third generation of artificial neural networks, has been widely adopted in vision and audio tasks. Nowadays, many neuromorphic platforms support SNN simulation and adopt Network-on-Chips (NoC)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Shiming Li , Shasha Guo , Limeng Zhang , Ziyang Kang , Shiying Wang , Wei Shi , Lei Wang , Weixia Xu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising alternative to artificial neural networks (ANNs), offering improved energy efficiency by leveraging sparse and event-driven computation. However, existing hardware implementations…

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