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most citedVersatile emulation of spiking neural networks on an accelerated neuromorphic substrate

43 citations · 123 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.NE2024

Integrating programmable plasticity in experiment descriptions for analog neuromorphic hardware

Philipp Spilger, Eric Müller, Johannes Schemmel

The study of plasticity in spiking neural networks is an active area of research. However, simulations that involve complex plasticity rules, dense connectivity/high synapse counts…

q-bio.QM2024

Multi-timescale synaptic plasticity on analog neuromorphic hardware

Amani Atoui, Jakob Kaiser, Sebastian Billaudelle +5

As numerical simulations grow in complexity, their demands on computing time and energy increase. Accelerators for numerical computation offer significant efficiency gains in many…

cs.NE2024

jaxsnn: Event-driven Gradient Estimation for Analog Neuromorphic Hardware

Eric Müller, Moritz Althaus, Elias Arnold +3

Traditional neuromorphic hardware architectures rely on event-driven computation, where the asynchronous transmission of events, such as spikes, triggers local computations within…

cs.NE2024

Scalable Network Emulation on Analog Neuromorphic Hardware

Elias Arnold, Philipp Spilger, Jan V. Straub +4

We present a novel software feature for the BrainScaleS-2 accelerated neuromorphic platform that facilitates the partitioned emulation of large-scale spiking neural networks. This…

cs.NE2023

Emulating insect brains for neuromorphic navigation

Korbinian Schreiber, Timo Wunderlich, Philipp Spilger +8

Bees display the remarkable ability to return home in a straight line after meandering excursions to their environment. Neurobiological imaging studies have revealed that this capa…

eess.SP2023★ 17 cited

Spiking Neural Network Nonlinear Demapping on Neuromorphic Hardware for IM/DD Optical Communication

Elias Arnold, Georg Böcherer, Florian Strasser +7

Neuromorphic computing implementing spiking neural networks (SNN) is a promising technology for reducing the footprint of optical transceivers, as required by the fast-paced growth…

cs.NE2022

hxtorch.snn: Machine-learning-inspired Spiking Neural Network Modeling on BrainScaleS-2

Philipp Spilger, Elias Arnold, Luca Blessing +4

Neuromorphic systems require user-friendly software to support the design and optimization of experiments. In this work, we address this need by presenting our development of a mac…

q-bio.NC2022★ 1 cited

Autocorrelations from emergent bistability in homeostatic spiking neural networks on neuromorphic hardware

Benjamin Cramer, Markus Kreft, Sebastian Billaudelle +9

A unique feature of neuromorphic computing is that memory is an implicit part of processing through traces of past information in the system's collective dynamics. The extent of me…

eess.SP2022★ 4 cited

Spiking Neural Network Equalization on Neuromorphic Hardware for IM/DD Optical Communication

Elias Arnold, Georg Böcherer, Eric Müller +4

A spiking neural network (SNN) non-linear equalizer model is implemented on the mixed-signal neuromorphic hardware system BrainScaleS-2 and evaluated for an IM/DD link. The BER 2e-…

eess.SP2022★ 1 cited

Spiking Neural Network Equalization for IM/DD Optical Communication

Elias Arnold, Georg Böcherer, Eric Müller +4

A spiking neural network (SNN) equalizer model suitable for electronic neuromorphic hardware is designed for an IM/DD link. The SNN achieves the same bit-error-rate as an artificia…

cs.NE2022

A Scalable Approach to Modeling on Accelerated Neuromorphic Hardware

Eric Müller, Elias Arnold, Oliver Breitwieser +20

Neuromorphic systems open up opportunities to enlarge the explorative space for computational research. However, it is often challenging to unite efficiency and usability. This wor…

cs.AR2021★ 16 cited

Demonstrating Analog Inference on the BrainScaleS-2 Mobile System

Yannik Stradmann, Sebastian Billaudelle, Oliver Breitwieser +8

We present the BrainScaleS-2 mobile system as a compact analog inference engine based on the BrainScaleS-2 ASIC and demonstrate its capabilities at classifying a medical electrocar…

cs.NE2020★ 8 cited

Inference with Artificial Neural Networks on Analog Neuromorphic Hardware

Johannes Weis, Philipp Spilger, Sebastian Billaudelle +11

The neuromorphic BrainScaleS-2 ASIC comprises mixed-signal neurons and synapse circuits as well as two versatile digital microprocessors. Primarily designed to emulate spiking neur…

cs.NE2020★ 13 cited

hxtorch: PyTorch for BrainScaleS-2 -- Perceptrons on Analog Neuromorphic Hardware

Philipp Spilger, Eric Müller, Arne Emmel +10

We present software facilitating the usage of the BrainScaleS-2 analog neuromorphic hardware system as an inference accelerator for artificial neural networks. The accelerator hard…

cs.NE2020★ 20 cited

Extending BrainScaleS OS for BrainScaleS-2

Eric Müller, Christian Mauch, Philipp Spilger +5

BrainScaleS-2 is a mixed-signal accelerated neuromorphic system targeted for research in the fields of computational neuroscience and beyond-von-Neumann computing. To augment its f…

q-bio.NC2019★ 43 cited

Versatile emulation of spiking neural networks on an accelerated neuromorphic substrate

Sebastian Billaudelle, Yannik Stradmann, Korbinian Schreiber +22

We present first experimental results on the novel BrainScaleS-2 neuromorphic architecture based on an analog neuro-synaptic core and augmented by embedded microprocessors for comp…