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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have been recently brought to light due to their promising capabilities. SNNs simulate the brain with higher biological plausibility compared to previous generations of neural networks. Learning with fewer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Shahriar Rezghi Shirsavar , Mohammad-Reza A. Dehaqani

The demand for edge artificial intelligence to process event-based, complex data calls for hardware beyond conventional digital, von-Neumann architectures. Neuromorphic computing, using spiking neural networks (SNNs) with emerging…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Zhu Wang , Song Wang , Zhiyuan Du , Ruibin Mao , Yu Xiao , Hayden Kwok-Hay So , Peng Lin , Can Li

Synaptic delay has attracted significant attention in neural network dynamics for integrating and processing complex spatiotemporal information. This paper introduces a high-throughput Spiking Neural Network (SNN) processor that supports…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Faquan Chen , Qingyang Tian , Ziren Wu , Rendong Ying , Fei Wen , Peilin Liu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely employed to solve various problems, e.g., image classification. Due to their compute- and data-intensive nature, CNN accelerators have been developed as ASICs or on FPGAs. Increasing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Patrick Plagwitz , Frank Hannig , Jürgen Teich , Oliver Keszocze

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are a promising paradigm for energy-efficient event-driven computation, but large-scale SNN execution remains challenging because sparse spike communication and synchronization can dominate runtime. Existing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Muhammad Ihsan Al Hafiz , Artur Podobas

This short report describes the scaling, up to 1024 software processes and hardware cores, of a distributed simulator of plastic spiking neural networks. A previous report demonstrated good scalability of the simulator up to 128 processes.…

This paper details the FPGA implementation methodology for Convolutional Spiking Neural Networks (CSNN) and applies this methodology to low-power radioisotope identification using high-resolution data. Power consumption of 75 mW has been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-26 Xiaoyu Huang , Edward Jones , Siru Zhang , Shouyu Xie , Steve Furber , Yannis Goulermas , Edward Marsden , Ian Baistow , Srinjoy Mitra , Alister Hamilton

This paper presents a massively parallel and scalable neuromorphic cortex simulator designed for simulating large and structurally connected spiking neural networks, such as complex models of various areas of the cortex. The main novelty of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Runchun Wang , Chetan Singh Thakur , Andre van Schaik

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of Spiking Neural Network (SNN) neuron models for hardware acceleration by comparing event driven and clock-driven implementations. We begin our investigation in software, rapidly prototyping…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Filippo Marostica , Alessio Carpegna , Alessandro Savino , Stefano Di Carlo

Application of deep convolutional spiking neural networks (SNNs) to artificial intelligence (AI) tasks has recently gained a lot of interest since SNNs are hardware-friendly and energy-efficient. Unlike the non-spiking counterparts, most of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Milad Mozafari , Mohammad Ganjtabesh , Abbas Nowzari-Dalini , Timothée Masquelier

The complexity of event-based object detection (OD) poses considerable challenges. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) show promising results and pave the way for efficient event-based OD. Despite this success, the path to efficient SNNs on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Jonathan Courtois , Pierre-Emmanuel Novac , Edgar Lemaire , Alain Pegatoquet , Benoit Miramond

Microcontroller units (MCU), which have an order of magnitude lower Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) than standard computers, makes them suitable for applications at the edge. Neuromorphic computing, which can realize low SWaP, relies on…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 L. Niedermeier , J. L. Krichmar

Computation on a large volume of data at high speed and low power requires energy-efficient computing architectures. Spiking neural network (SNN) with bio-inspired spike-timing-dependent plasticity learning (STDP) is a promising solution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Sahibia Kaur Vohra , Sherin A Thomas , Mahendra Sakare , Devarshi Mrinal Das

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are powerful models of spatiotemporal computation and are well suited for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices and neuromorphic hardware due to their low power consumption. Leveraging attention…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Boxun Xu , Junyoung Hwang , Pruek Vanna-iampikul , Sung Kyu Lim , Peng Li

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have gained attention in recent years due to their ability to handle sparse and event-based data better than regular artificial neural networks (ANNs). Since the structure of SNNs is less suited for typically…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Daniel Windhager , Bernhard A. Moser , Michael Lunglmayr

This paper presents a spiking neural network (SNN) accelerator made using fully open-source EDA tools, process design kit (PDK), and memory macros synthesized using OpenRAM. The chip is taped out in the 130 nm SkyWater process and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Farhad Modaresi , Matthew Guthaus , Jason K. Eshraghian

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted the attention of the deep learning community for use in low-latency, low-power neuromorphic hardware, as well as models for understanding neuroscience. In this paper, we introduce Spiking Phasor…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Connor Bybee , E. Paxon Frady , Friedrich T. Sommer

Deploying adaptive intelligence at the edge remains challenging due to the high computational and energy cost of training neural models. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising alternative, but enabling on-device learning requires…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Alessio Caviglia , Filippo Marostica , Alessandro Savino , Stefano Di Carlo

Neuromorphic computing is henceforth a major research field for both academic and industrial actors. As opposed to Von Neumann machines, brain-inspired processors aim at bringing closer the memory and the computational elements to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Maxence Bouvier , Alexandre Valentian , Thomas Mesquida , François Rummens , Marina Reyboz , Elisa Vianello , Edith Beigné

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired foundation for low-power, event-driven intelligence, yet their direct on-chip supervised training remains a key hardware challenge. This paper presents a multiplication-free,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Maryam Mirsadeghi , Mojtaba Mirbagheri , Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh