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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer energy-efficient and biologically plausible alternatives to traditional artificial neural networks, but their performance depends critically on the tuning of neuron model parameters. In this work, we…

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Brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) have recently drawn more and more attention due to their event-driven and energy-efficient characteristics. The integration of storage and computation paradigm on neuromorphic hardwares makes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yufei Guo , Liwen Zhang , Yuanpei Chen , Xinyi Tong , Xiaode Liu , YingLei Wang , Xuhui Huang , Zhe Ma

Developing asynchronous neuromorphic hardware to meet the demands of diverse real-life edge scenarios remains significant challenges. These challenges include constraints on hardware resources and power budgets while satisfying the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jian Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Jingchen Huang , Jilin Zhang , Hong Chen

Temporal processing is vital for extracting meaningful information from time-varying signals. Recent advancements in Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have shown immense promise in efficiently processing these signals. However, progress in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Xinyi Chen , Chenxiang Ma , Yujie Wu , Kay Chen Tan , Jibin Wu

Brain-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have the characteristics of event-driven and high energy-efficient, which are different from traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) when deployed on edge devices such as neuromorphic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Jue Chen , Huan Yuan , Jianchao Tan , Bin Chen , Chengru Song , Di Zhang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are increasingly favored for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices due to their energy-efficient and event-driven processing capabilities. However, training SNNs remains challenging because of the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Haoxiong Ren , Yangu He , Kwunhang Wong , Rui Bao , Ning Lin , Zhongrui Wang , Dashan Shang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are now the de facto solution for computer vision problems thanks to their impressive results and ease of learning. These networks are composed of layers of connected units called artificial neurons,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Loïc Cordone , Benoît Miramond , Sonia Ferrante

The energy-efficient and brain-like information processing abilities of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted considerable attention, establishing them as a crucial element of brain-inspired computing. One prevalent challenge…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zhichao Zhu , Yang Qi , Wenlian Lu , Zhigang Wang , Lu Cao , Jianfeng Feng

This work presents a dynamic power management architecture for neuromorphic many core systems such as SpiNNaker. A fast dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) technique is presented which allows the processing elements (PE) to change…

Recently, brain-inspired computing models have shown great potential to outperform today's deep learning solutions in terms of robustness and energy efficiency. Particularly, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) and HyperDimensional Computing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Zhuowen Zou , Haleh Alimohamadi , Farhad Imani , Yeseong Kim , Mohsen Imani

Neuromorphic computing is an emerging research field that aims to develop new intelligent systems by integrating theories and technologies from multi-disciplines such as neuroscience and deep learning. Currently, there have been various…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Chaofei Hong , Mengwen Yuan , Mengxiao Zhang , Xiao Wang , Chegnjun Zhang , Jiaxin Wang , Gang Pan , Zhaohui Wu , Huajin Tang

The rapid advancement of neuromorphic technology aims to address the memory wall challenge inherent in conventional von Neumann architectures. This paper critically examines current digital neuromorphic processors and their strategies to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Amirreza Yousefzadeh , Sameed Sohail , Ana Lucia Varbanescu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) recently gained momentum due to their low-power multiplication-free computing and the closer resemblance of biological processes in the nervous system of humans. However, SNNs require very long spike trains…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Daniel Gerlinghoff , Zhehui Wang , Xiaozhe Gu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Tao Luo

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) aim to realize brain-inspired intelligence on neuromorphic chips with high energy efficiency by introducing neural dynamics and spike properties. As the emerging spiking deep learning paradigm attracts…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Wei Fang , Yanqi Chen , Jianhao Ding , Zhaofei Yu , Timothée Masquelier , Ding Chen , Liwei Huang , Huihui Zhou , Guoqi Li , Yonghong Tian

Developing dedicated mixed-signal neuromorphic computing systems optimized for real-time sensory-processing in extreme edge-computing applications requires time-consuming design, fabrication, and deployment of full-custom neuromorphic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Fernando M. Quintana , Maryada , Pedro L. Galindo , Elisa Donati , Giacomo Indiveri , Fernando Perez-Peña

Brain-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted attention for their event-driven characteristics and high energy efficiency. However, the temporal dependency and irregularity of spikes present significant challenges for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Kainan Wang , Chengyi Yang , Chengting Yu , Yee Sin Ang , Bo Wang , Aili Wang

Bio-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are now demonstrating comparable accuracy to intricate convolutional neural networks (CNN), all while delivering remarkable energy and latency efficiency when deployed on neuromorphic hardware. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Gourav Datta , Zeyu Liu , James Diffenderfer , Bhavya Kailkhura , Peter A. Beerel

Deployment of deep neural networks in resource-constrained embedded systems requires innovative algorithmic solutions to facilitate their energy and memory efficiency. To further ensure the reliability of these systems against malicious…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Mathias Schmolli , Maximilian Baronig , Robert Legenstein , Ozan Özdenizci

The number of processing elements (PEs) in a fixed-sized systolic accelerator is well matched for large and compute-bound DNNs; whereas, memory-bound DNNs suffer from PE underutilization and fail to achieve peak performance and energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-29 Nandan Kumar Jha , Shreyas Ravishankar , Sparsh Mittal , Arvind Kaushik , Dipan Mandal , Mahesh Chandra

Neuromorphic Computing is a nascent research field in which models and devices are designed to process information by emulating biological neural systems. Thanks to their superior energy efficiency, analog neuromorphic systems are highly…

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