Cognitive computing building block: A versatile and efficient digital neuron model for neurosynaptic cores

AS Cassidy, P Merolla, JV Arthur… - … joint conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Marching along the DARPA SyNAPSE roadmap, IBM unveils a trilogy of innovations towards
the TrueNorth cognitive computing system inspired by the brain's function and efficiency …

Cognitive computing systems: Algorithms and applications for networks of neurosynaptic cores

SK Esser, A Andreopoulos… - … Joint Conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Marching along the DARPA SyNAPSE roadmap, IBM unveils a trilogy of innovations towards
the TrueNorth cognitive computing system inspired by the brain's function and efficiency …

Bottom-up and top-down neural processing systems design: Neuromorphic intelligence as the convergence of natural and artificial intelligence

CP Frenkel, D Bol, G Indiveri - ArXiv. org, 2021 - zora.uzh.ch
While Moore's law has driven exponential computing power expectations, its nearing end
calls for new avenues for improving the overall system performance. One of these avenues …

Truenorth: Design and tool flow of a 65 mw 1 million neuron programmable neurosynaptic chip

F Akopyan, J Sawada, A Cassidy… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The new era of cognitive computing brings forth the grand challenge of developing systems
capable of processing massive amounts of noisy multisensory data. This type of intelligent …

Neuromorphic electronic circuits for building autonomous cognitive systems

E Chicca, F Stefanini, C Bartolozzi… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several analog and digital brain-inspired electronic systems have been recently proposed
as dedicated solutions for fast simulations of spiking neural networks. While these …

Spiking neural networks hardware implementations and challenges: A survey

M Bouvier, A Valentian, T Mesquida… - ACM Journal on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Cognitive computing programming paradigm: a corelet language for composing networks of neurosynaptic cores

A Amir, P Datta, WP Risk, AS Cassidy… - … Joint Conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Marching along the DARPA SyNAPSE roadmap, IBM unveils a trilogy of innovations towards
the TrueNorth cognitive computing system inspired by the brain's function and efficiency …

Comparison of artificial and spiking neural networks on digital hardware

S Davidson, SB Furber - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Despite the success of Deep Neural Networks—a type of Artificial Neural Network (ANN)—in
problem domains such as image recognition and speech processing, the energy and …

TrueNorth: Accelerating from zero to 64 million neurons in 10 years

MV DeBole, B Taba, A Amir, F Akopyan… - Computer, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IBM's brain-inspired processor is a massively parallel neural network inference engine
containing 1 million spiking neurons and 256 million low-precision synapses. Now, after a …

Real-time scalable cortical computing at 46 giga-synaptic OPS/watt with~ 100× speedup in time-to-solution and~ 100,000× reduction in energy-to-solution

AS Cassidy, R Alvarez-Icaza, F Akopyan… - SC'14: Proceedings …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drawing on neuroscience, we have developed a parallel, event-driven kernel for
neurosynaptic computation, that is efficient with respect to computation, memory, and …