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In recent years the field of neuromorphic low-power systems that consume orders of magnitude less power gained significant momentum. However, their wider use is still hindered by the lack of algorithms that can harness the strengths of such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Peter U. Diehl , Guido Zarrella , Andrew Cassidy , Bruno U. Pedroni , Emre Neftci

Read-only memory (ROM) provides deterministic access to predefined data mappings. Extending ROM concepts to the optical domain enables high-bandwidth, low-latency, and parallel memory access, but realizing compact and reconfigurable optical…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-22 Ankur Singh , Akhilesh Jaiswal

Neuromorphic computing is a new paradigm for design of both the computing hardware and algorithms inspired by biological neural networks. The event-based nature and the inherent parallelism make neuromorphic computing a promising paradigm…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Sebastian Glatz , Julien N. P. Martel , Raphaela Kreiser , Ning Qiao , Yulia Sandamirskaya

Neuromorphic photonics that aims to process and store information simultaneously like human brains has emerged as a promising alternative for the next generation intelligent computing systems. The implementation of hardware emulating the…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 Jinlong Xiang , Xuhan Guo , Yikai Su

Photonic reservoir computer (PRC) is a kind of real-time and adaptive recurrent neural network, where only weights in the readout layer require training. PRC is a promising tool to deal with the crucial issue of nonlinear equalization in…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-24 Rui-Qian Li , Yi-Wei Shen , Zekun Niu , Guozhi Xu , Jingyi Yu , Xuming He , Lilin Yi , Cheng Wang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as an attractive alternative to traditional deep learning frameworks, since they provide higher computational efficiency in event driven neuromorphic hardware. However, the state-of-the-art (SOTA)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-05 Gourav Datta , Souvik Kundu , Peter A. Beerel

Complex dynamics of silicon microring resonators loaded by delayed feedback elements enable high-speed photonic reservoir computing. Implementing feedback is especially challenging when the required delay should match the time scales of…

Matrix multiplication is a fundamental kernel in large-scale artificial intelligence and scientific computing, but its performance on conventional electronic accelerators is increasingly constrained by memory bandwidth and energy…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hailong Gong , Haibo Zhang , Amanda S. Barnard , Mahbub Hassan , Matt Woolley , Rajkumar Buyya

Photonic technologies hold significant potential for creating innovative, high-speed, efficient and hardware-friendly neuromorphic computing platforms. Neuromorphic photonic methods leveraging ubiquitous, technologically mature and…

Memristive crossbars have become a popular means for realizing unsupervised and supervised learning techniques. In previous neuromorphic architectures with leaky integrate-and-fire neurons, the crossbar itself has been separated from the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Walt Woods , Christof Teuscher

Spike-based neuromorphic hardware promises to reduce the energy consumption of image classification and other deep learning applications, particularly on mobile phones or other edge devices. However, direct training of deep spiking neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Christoph Stöckl , Wolfgang Maass

Due to the fundamental limit to reducing power consumption of running deep learning models on von-Neumann architecture, research on neuromorphic computing systems based on low-power spiking neural networks using analog neurons is in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Hanseok Kim , Woo-Seok Choi

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are distinguished from Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for their complex neuronal dynamics and sparse binary activations (spikes) inspired by the biological neural system. Traditional neuron models use…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Peng Xue , Wei Fang , Zhengyu Ma , Zihan Huang , Zhaokun Zhou , Yonghong Tian , Timothée Masquelier , Huihui Zhou

Achieving energy efficiency in learning is a key challenge for artificial intelligence (AI) computing platforms. Biological systems demonstrate remarkable abilities to learn complex skills quickly and efficiently. Inspired by this, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Ingo Blakowski , Dmitrii Zendrikov , Cristiano Capone , Giacomo Indiveri

Brain-inspired computing concepts like artificial neural networks have become promising alternatives to classical von Neumann computer architectures. Photonic neural networks target the realizations of neurons, network connections and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-11-24 T. Heuser , M. Pflüger , I. Fischer , J. A. Lott , D. Brunner , S. Reitzenstein

The proliferation of deep learning applications has intensified the demand for electronic hardware with low energy consumption and fast computing speed. Neuromorphic photonics have emerged as a viable alternative to directly process…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Guangfeng You , Chao Qian , Hongsheng Chen

This paper presents the Photonic FabricTM and the Photonic Fabric ApplianceTM (PFA), a photonic-enabled switch and memory subsystem that delivers low latency, high bandwidth, and low per-bit energy. By integrating high-bandwidth HBM3E…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Jing Ding , Trung Diep

Thanks to their parallel and sparse activity features, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are well-suited for hardware implementation in low-power neuromorphic hardware. However, mapping rate-based RNNs to hardware-compatible spiking neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Gauthier Boeshertz , Giacomo Indiveri , Manu Nair , Alpha Renner

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are gaining widespread momentum in the field of neuromorphic computing. These network systems integrated with neurons and synapses provide computational efficiency by mimicking the human brain. It is desired…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Omkar Phadke , Jayatika Sakhuja , Vivek Saraswat , Udayan Ganguly

Neuromorphic computing aims to replicate the brain's remarkable energy efficiency and parallel processing capabilities for large-scale artificial intelligence applications. In this work, we present a comprehensive comparative study of three…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Logan Larsh , Raiyan Siddique , Sarah Sharif Yaser Mike Banad