DYNAP-SE2: a scalable multi-core dynamic neuromorphic asynchronous spiking neural network processor

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Autori principali: Richter, Ole, Wu, Chenxi, Whatley, Adrian M., Köstinger, German, Nielsen, Carsten, Qiao, Ning, Indiveri, Giacomo
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author Richter, Ole
Wu, Chenxi
Whatley, Adrian M.
Köstinger, German
Nielsen, Carsten
Qiao, Ning
Indiveri, Giacomo
author_facet Richter, Ole
Wu, Chenxi
Whatley, Adrian M.
Köstinger, German
Nielsen, Carsten
Qiao, Ning
Indiveri, Giacomo
contents With the remarkable progress that technology has made, the need for processing data near the sensors at the edge has increased dramatically. The electronic systems used in these applications must process data continuously, in real-time, and extract relevant information using the smallest possible energy budgets. A promising approach for implementing always-on processing of sensory signals that supports on-demand, sparse, and edge-computing is to take inspiration from biological nervous system. Following this approach, we present a brain-inspired platform for prototyping real-time event-based Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs). The system proposed supports the direct emulation of dynamic and realistic neural processing phenomena such as short-term plasticity, NMDA gating, AMPA diffusion, homeostasis, spike frequency adaptation, conductance-based dendritic compartments and spike transmission delays. The analog circuits that implement such primitives are paired with a low latency asynchronous digital circuits for routing and mapping events. This asynchronous infrastructure enables the definition of different network architectures, and provides direct event-based interfaces to convert and encode data from event-based and continuous-signal sensors. Here we describe the overall system architecture, we characterize the mixed signal analog-digital circuits that emulate neural dynamics, demonstrate their features with experimental measurements, and present a low- and high-level software ecosystem that can be used for configuring the system. The flexibility to emulate different biologically plausible neural networks, and the chip's ability to monitor both population and single neuron signals in real-time, allow to develop and validate complex models of neural processing for both basic research and edge-computing applications.
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spellingShingle DYNAP-SE2: a scalable multi-core dynamic neuromorphic asynchronous spiking neural network processor
Richter, Ole
Wu, Chenxi
Whatley, Adrian M.
Köstinger, German
Nielsen, Carsten
Qiao, Ning
Indiveri, Giacomo
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Artificial Intelligence
With the remarkable progress that technology has made, the need for processing data near the sensors at the edge has increased dramatically. The electronic systems used in these applications must process data continuously, in real-time, and extract relevant information using the smallest possible energy budgets. A promising approach for implementing always-on processing of sensory signals that supports on-demand, sparse, and edge-computing is to take inspiration from biological nervous system. Following this approach, we present a brain-inspired platform for prototyping real-time event-based Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs). The system proposed supports the direct emulation of dynamic and realistic neural processing phenomena such as short-term plasticity, NMDA gating, AMPA diffusion, homeostasis, spike frequency adaptation, conductance-based dendritic compartments and spike transmission delays. The analog circuits that implement such primitives are paired with a low latency asynchronous digital circuits for routing and mapping events. This asynchronous infrastructure enables the definition of different network architectures, and provides direct event-based interfaces to convert and encode data from event-based and continuous-signal sensors. Here we describe the overall system architecture, we characterize the mixed signal analog-digital circuits that emulate neural dynamics, demonstrate their features with experimental measurements, and present a low- and high-level software ecosystem that can be used for configuring the system. The flexibility to emulate different biologically plausible neural networks, and the chip's ability to monitor both population and single neuron signals in real-time, allow to develop and validate complex models of neural processing for both basic research and edge-computing applications.
title DYNAP-SE2: a scalable multi-core dynamic neuromorphic asynchronous spiking neural network processor
topic Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00564