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Neuromorphic hardware

Chips whose circuits imitate spiking neurons and synapses. They are event-driven and use little power, unlike a conventional processor-and-memory design.

Chips whose circuits imitate spiking neurons and synapses. They are event-driven and use little power, unlike a conventional processor-and-memory design. One published chip has one million digital neurons and 256 million synapses.

Sources

• Mead C (1990). Neuromorphic electronic systems. Proc IEEE 78:1629-1636.
• Merolla PA, Arthur JV, Alvarez-Icaza R, Cassidy AS, et al. (2014) A million spiking-neuron integrated circuit with a scalable communication network and interface. Science 345(6197):668-673. doi:10.1126/science.1254642.

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