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Real-time processing of analog signals on accelerated neuromorphic hardware
Yannik Stradmann, Johannes Schemmel, Mihai A. Petrovici +1
Sensory processing with neuromorphic systems is typically done by using either event-based sensors or translating input signals to spikes before presenting them to the neuromorphic…
Sustainable operation of research infrastructure for novel computing
Yannik Stradmann, Joscha Ilmberger, Eric Müller +1
Novel compute systems are an emerging research topic, aiming towards building next-generation compute platforms. For these systems to thrive, they need to be provided as research i…
Lu.i -- A low-cost electronic neuron for education and outreach
Yannik Stradmann, Julian Göltz, Mihai A. Petrovici +2
With an increasing presence of science throughout all parts of society, there is a rising expectation for researchers to effectively communicate their work and, equally, for teache…
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…
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…
The BrainScaleS-2 accelerated neuromorphic system with hybrid plasticity
Christian Pehle, Sebastian Billaudelle, Benjamin Cramer +7
Since the beginning of information processing by electronic components, the nervous system has served as a metaphor for the organization of computational primitives. Brain-inspired…
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…
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…
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…
Surrogate gradients for analog neuromorphic computing
Benjamin Cramer, Sebastian Billaudelle, Simeon Kanya +9
To rapidly process temporal information at a low metabolic cost, biological neurons integrate inputs as an analog sum but communicate with spikes, binary events in time. Analog neu…
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…
The Heidelberg spiking datasets for the systematic evaluation of spiking neural networks
Benjamin Cramer, Yannik Stradmann, Johannes Schemmel +1
Spiking neural networks are the basis of versatile and power-efficient information processing in the brain. Although we currently lack a detailed understanding of how these network…
Demonstrating Advantages of Neuromorphic Computation: A Pilot Study
Timo Wunderlich, Akos F. Kungl, Eric Müller +14
Neuromorphic devices represent an attempt to mimic aspects of the brain's architecture and dynamics with the aim of replicating its hallmark functional capabilities in terms of com…
A Mixed-Signal Structured AdEx Neuron for Accelerated Neuromorphic Cores
Syed Ahmed Aamir, Paul Müller, Gerd Kiene +5
Here we describe a multi-compartment neuron circuit based on the Adaptive-Exponential I&F (AdEx) model, developed for the second-generation BrainScaleS hardware. Based on an existi…
An Accelerated LIF Neuronal Network Array for a Large Scale Mixed-Signal Neuromorphic Architecture
Syed Ahmed Aamir, Yannik Stradmann, Paul Müller +5
We present an array of leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neuron circuits designed for the second-generation BrainScaleS mixed-signal 65-nm CMOS neuromorphic hardware. The neuronal arr…