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The increasing need for compact and low-power computing solutions for machine learning applications has triggered significant interest in energy-efficient neuromorphic systems. However, most of these architectures rely on spiking neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Manu V Nair , Giacomo Indiveri

Spiking neural networks and neuromorphic hardware platforms that simulate neuronal dynamics are getting wide attention and are being applied to many relevant problems using Machine Learning. Despite a well-established mathematical…

As computing resource demands continue to escalate in the face of big data, cloud-connectivity and the internet of things, it has become imperative to develop new low-power, scalable architectures. Neuromorphic photonics, or photonic neural…

Photonic neuromorphic computing promises revolutionary advances in parallel and high-speed processing, yet a key challenge persists: co-integrating nonlinearity, dense connectivity, and intrinsic memory monolithically to enable…

We present a flexible and self-contained platform for acoustic levitation research based on the Xilinx Zynq SoC using an array of ultrasonic emitters. The platform employs an inexpensive ZedBoard and provides fast movement of the levitated…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-25 William Beasley , Brenda Gatusch , Daniel Connolly-Taylor , Chenyuan Teng , Asier Marzo , Jose Nunez-Yanez

Two main routes of learning methods exist at present including error-driven global learning and neuroscience-oriented local learning. Integrating them into one network may provide complementary learning capabilities for versatile learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Yujie Wu , Rong Zhao , Jun Zhu , Feng Chen , Mingkun Xu , Guoqi Li , Sen Song , Lei Deng , Guanrui Wang , Hao Zheng , Jing Pei , Youhui Zhang , Mingguo Zhao , Luping Shi

The term ``neuromorphic'' refers to systems that are closely resembling the architecture and/or the dynamics of biological neural networks. Typical examples are novel computer chips designed to mimic the architecture of a biological brain,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Dario Izzo , Alexander Hadjiivanov , Dominik Dold , Gabriele Meoni , Emmanuel Blazquez

The rise of mobility, IoT and wearables has shifted processing to the edge of the sensors, driven by the need to reduce latency, communication costs and overall energy consumption. While deep learning models have achieved remarkable results…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Caterina Caccavella , Federico Paredes-Vallés , Marco Cannici , Lyes Khacef

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely used in deep learning applications, e.g. visual systems, robotics etc. However, existing software solutions are not efficient. Therefore, many hardware accelerators have been proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Sasindu Wijeratne , Sandaruwan Jayaweera , Mahesh Dananjaya , Ajith Pasqual

Different from developing neural networks (NNs) for general-purpose processors, the development for NN chips usually faces with some hardware-specific restrictions, such as limited precision of network signals and parameters, constrained…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Yu Ji , YouHui Zhang , WenGuang Chen , Yuan Xie

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

Artificial neural networks inspired by brain operations can improve the possibilities of solving complex problems more efficiently. Today's computing hardware, on the other hand, is mainly based on von Neumann architecture and CMOS…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Ali Bozbey , Mustafa Altay Karamuftuoglu , Sasan Razmkhah , Murat Ozbayoglu

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) obtain outstanding results in tasks that require human-level understanding of data, like image or speech recognition. However, their computational load is significant, motivating the development of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Paolo Meloni , Alessandro Capotondi , Gianfranco Deriu , Michele Brian , Francesco Conti , Davide Rossi , Luigi Raffo , Luca Benini

The IBM Neural Computer (INC) is a highly flexible, re-configurable parallel processing system that is intended as a research and development platform for emerging machine intelligence algorithms and computational neuroscience. It consists…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Pritish Narayanan , Charles E. Cox , Alexis Asseman , Nicolas Antoine , Harald Huels , Winfried W. Wilcke , Ahmet S. Ozcan

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…

Accelerating the neural network inference by FPGA has emerged as a popular option, since the reconfigurability and high performance computing capability of FPGA intrinsically satisfies the computation demand of the fast-evolving neural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Yu Gong , Zhihan Xu , Zhezhi He , Weifeng Zhang , Xiaobing Tu , Xiaoyao Liang , Li Jiang

Neuromorphic engineering combines the architectural and computational principles of systems neuroscience with semiconductor electronics, with the aim of building efficient and compact devices that mimic the synaptic and neural machinery of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-07-02 Daniel Martí , Mattia Rigotti , Mingoo Seok , Stefano Fusi

Neuromorphic computing using biologically inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) is a promising solution to meet Energy-Throughput (ET) efficiency needed for edge computing devices. Neuromorphic hardware architectures that emulate SNNs in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Mayank Senapati , Manil Dev Gomony , Sherif Eissa , Charlotte Frenkel , Henk Corporaal

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have sparse, event driven processing that can leverage neuromorphic applications. In this work, we introduce a multi-threading kernel that enables neuromorphic applications running at the edge, meaning they…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Lars Niedermeier , Vyom Shah , Jeffrey L. Krichmar