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Neural coupled oscillators are a useful building block in numerous models and applications. They were analyzed extensively in theoretical studies and more recently, in biologically realistic simulations of spiking neural networks. The…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Renate Krause , Joanne J. A. van Bavel , Chenxi Wu , Marc A. Vos , Alain Nogaret , Giacomo Indiveri

The approximation of quantum states with artificial neural networks has gained a lot of attention during the last years. Meanwhile, analog neuromorphic chips, inspired by structural and dynamical properties of the biological brain, show a…

All systolic or distributed neuromorphic architectures require power-efficient processing nodes. In this paper, a unifying tutorial is presented which implements multiple neuromorphic processing elements using a systematic analog approach…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Hamid Soleimani , Emmanuel. M. Drakakis

Neuromorphic computing is poised to further the success of software-based neural networks by utilizing improved customized hardware. However, the translation of neuromorphic algorithms to hardware specifications is a problem that has been…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Andres E. Lombo , Jesus E. Lares , Matteo Castellani , Chi-Ning Chou , Nancy Lynch , Karl K. Berggren

While classical neural networks take a position of a leading method in the machine learning community, spiking neuromorphic systems bring attention and large projects in neuroscience. Spiking neural networks were shown to be able to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Sergei Dytckov , Masoud Daneshtalab

The present work attempts both a review of previous methods for transferring digital and symbolic computations in an analog or optical substrate and also to offer certain alternatives not yet fully explored. The essential difference from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-21 T. E. Raptis

Neuromorphic hardware aims to leverage distributed computing and event-driven circuit design to achieve an energy-efficient AI system. The name "neuromorphic" is derived from its spiking and local computing nature, which mimics the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zhenhui Chen , Haoran Xu , Yangfan Hu , Xiaofei Jin , Xinyu Li , Ziyang Kang , Gang Pan , De Ma

To rapidly process temporal information at a low metabolic cost, biological neurons integrate inputs as an analog sum but communicate with spikes, binary events in time. Analog neuromorphic hardware uses the same principles to emulate…

How spiking networks are able to perform probabilistic inference is an intriguing question, not only for understanding information processing in the brain, but also for transferring these computational principles to neuromorphic silicon…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-07-12 Mihai A. Petrovici , Anna Schroeder , Oliver Breitwieser , Andreas Grübl , Johannes Schemmel , Karlheinz Meier

In this study, we present a highly configurable neuromorphic computing substrate and use it for emulating several types of neural networks. At the heart of this system lies a mixed-signal chip, with analog implementations of neurons and…

Spiking neural networks excel at event-driven sensing. Yet, maintaining task-relevant context over long timescales both algorithmically and in hardware, while respecting both tight energy and memory budgets, remains a core challenge in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Pengfei Sun , Zhe Su , Jascha Achterberg , Giacomo Indiveri , Dan F. M. Goodman , Danyal Akarca

Unlike traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs), biological neuronal networks solve complex cognitive tasks with sparse neuronal activity, recurrent connections, and local learning rules. These mechanisms serve as design principles in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Matteo Saponati , Chiara De Luca , Giacomo Indiveri , Benjamin Grewe

Spikes are the currency in central nervous systems for information transmission and processing. They are also believed to play an essential role in low-power consumption of the biological systems, whose efficiency attracts increasing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Qiang Yu , Shenglan Li , Huajin Tang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang , Kay Chen Tan

We propose a scalable neuromorphic architecture based on spiking dynamics emerging from the autonomous time-continuous evolution of clockless (asynchronous) digital circuits. Implemented on commercially available field-programmable gate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Eric Oliveira Gomes , Damien Rontani

Inspired by biological processes, neuromorphic computing leverages spiking neural networks (SNNs) to perform inference tasks, offering significant efficiency gains for workloads involving sequential data. Recent advances in hardware and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Dengyu Wu , Jiechen Chen , Bipin Rajendran , H. Vincent Poor , Osvaldo Simeone

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the development of artificial intelligence circuits and systems for edge computing applications. In-memory computing mixed-signal neuromorphic architectures provide promising ultra-low-power…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Arianna Rubino , Can Livanelioglu , Ning Qiao , Melika Payvand , Giacomo Indiveri

Neuromorphic computing is an emerging computing paradigm that moves away from batched processing towards the online, event-driven, processing of streaming data. Neuromorphic chips, when coupled with spike-based sensors, can inherently adapt…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Jiechen Chen , Nicolas Skatchkovsky , Osvaldo Simeone

Neural networks have proven effective for solving many difficult computational problems. Implementing complex neural networks in software is very computationally expensive. To explore the limits of information processing, it will be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Jeffrey M. Shainline , Sonia M. Buckley , Richard P. Mirin , Sae Woo Nam

With the remarkable progress that technology has made, the need for processing data near the sensors at the edge has increased dramatically. The electronic systems used in these applications must process data continuously, in real-time, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Ole Richter , Chenxi Wu , Adrian M. Whatley , German Köstinger , Carsten Nielsen , Ning Qiao , Giacomo Indiveri

Processing sensor data with spiking neural networks on digital neuromorphic chips requires converting continuous analog signals into spike pulses. Two strategies are promising for achieving low energy consumption and fast processing speeds…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Javier Lopez-Randulfe , Nico Reeb , Alois Knoll