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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have the potential to drastically reduce the energy requirements of AI systems. However, mainstream accelerators like GPUs and TPUs are designed for the high arithmetic intensity of standard ANNs so are not…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zainab Aizaz , James C. Knight , Thomas Nowotny

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer inherent energy efficiency due to their event-driven computation model, making them promising for edge AI deployment. However, their practical adoption is limited by the computational overhead of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Parth Patne , Mahdi Taheri , Ali Mahani , Maksim Jenihhin , Reza Mahani , Christian Herglotz

Event-driven sensors such as LiDAR and dynamic vision sensor (DVS) have found increased attention in high-resolution and high-speed applications. A lot of work has been conducted to enhance recognition accuracy. However, the essential topic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Shibo Zhou , Wei Wang , Xiaohua Li , Zhanpeng Jin

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

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer high energy efficiency and event-driven computation, ideal for low-power edge AI. Their hardware implementation on FPGAs, however, faces challenges due to heavy computation, large memory use, and limited…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Mohammad Javad Sekonji , Ali Mahani , Maryam Mirsadeghi , Mahdi Taheri

One of the most exciting advancements in AI over the last decade is the wide adoption of ANNs, such as DNN and CNN, in many real-world applications. However, the underlying massive amounts of computation and storage requirement greatly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Tao Liu , Lei Jiang , Yier Jin , Gang Quan , Wujie Wen

SpiNNaker is an ARM-based processor platform optimized for the simulation of spiking neural networks. This brief describes the roadmap in going from the current SPINNaker1 system, a 1 Million core machine in 130nm CMOS, to SpiNNaker2, a 10…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Christian Mayr , Sebastian Hoeppner , Steve Furber

Autonomous embedded systems (e.g., robots) typically necessitate intelligent computation with low power/energy processing for completing their tasks. Such requirements can be fulfilled by embodied neuromorphic intelligence with spiking…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Iqra Bano , Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Shafique

Brain-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have bio-plausibility and low-power advantages over Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Applications of SNNs are currently limited to simple classification tasks because of their poor…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Xinhao Luo , Man Yao , Yuhong Chou , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired computational paradigm, enabling energy-efficient data processing through spike-based information transmission. Despite notable advancements in hardware for SNNs, spike encoding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 MHD Anas Alsakkal , Runze Wang , Piotr Dudek , Jayawan Wijekoon

Generative models based on neural networks present a substantial challenge within deep learning. As it stands, such models are primarily limited to the domain of artificial neural networks. Spiking neural networks, as the third generation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Linghao Feng , Dongcheng Zhao , Yi Zeng

Spiking neural network (SNN), as the next generation of artificial neural network (ANN), offer a closer mimicry of natural neural networks and hold promise for significant improvements in computational efficiency. However, the current SNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Dengyu Wu , Gaojie Jin , Han Yu , Xinping Yi , Xiaowei Huang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as an attractive spatio-temporal computing paradigm for complex vision tasks. However, most existing works yield models that require many time steps and do not leverage the inherent temporal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Gourav Datta , Haoqin Deng , Robert Aviles , Peter A. Beerel

This paper presents a mixed-signal neuromorphic accelerator architecture designed for accelerating inference with event-based neural network models. This fully CMOS-compatible accelerator utilizes analog computing to emulate synapse and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Armin Abdollahi , Mehdi Kamal , Massoud Pedram

Event cameras sense brightness changes and output binary asynchronous event streams, attracting increasing attention. Their bio-inspired dynamics align well with spiking neural networks (SNNs), offering a promising energy-efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Shuhan Ye , Yi Yu , Qixin Zhang , Chenqi Kong , Qiangqiang Wu , Kun Wang , Xudong Jiang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are posited as a computationally efficient and biologically plausible alternative to conventional neural architectures, with their core computational framework primarily using the leaky integrate-and-fire…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Malyaban Bal , Abhronil Sengupta

In the rapid evolution of next-generation brain-inspired artificial intelligence and increasingly sophisticated electromagnetic environment, the most bionic characteristics and anti-interference performance of spiking neural networks show…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Lyuyang Sima , Joseph Bucukovski , Erwan Carlson , Nicole L. Yien

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained significant attention in edge computing due to their low power consumption and computational efficiency. However, existing implementations either use conventional System on Chip (SoC) architectures…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Kanishka Gunawardana , Sanka Peeris , Kavishka Rambukwella , Thamish Wanduragala , Saadia Jameel , Roshan Ragel , Isuru Nawinne

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer energy efficiency over artificial neural networks (ANNs) but suffer from high latency and computational overhead due to their multi-timestep operational nature. While various dynamic computation methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Donghwa Kang , Doohyun Kim , Sang-Ki Ko , Jinkyu Lee , Brent ByungHoon Kang , Hyeongboo Baek

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have shown clear advantages over traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs) for low latency and high computational efficiency, due to their event-driven nature and sparse communication. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Jibin Wu , Chenglin Xu , Daquan Zhou , Haizhou Li , Kay Chen Tan