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Next-Gen Neuromorphic Researchers Look to Future

EE Times Current · 31 May 2024 · 52m

What this episode covers

Dr. Kenneth Stewart (US Naval Research Laboratory), Dr. Laura Kriener (University of Bern), Jens Pedersen (KTH), and Dr. Fabrizio Ottati (NXP Semiconductors) discuss the future of neuromorphic engineering with hosts Dr. Sunny Bains and Dr. Giulia D’Angelo. Stewart explains surrogate gradient descent and one-shot learning for spiking neural networks, while Kriener details time-to-first-spike encoding and energy efficiency on the BrainScaleS-2 platform. Pedersen proposes a neuromorphic intermediate representation to bridge software and hardware, and Ottati compares spiking networks to artificial neural networks and transformers for edge AI.

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NXP Semiconductors
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Spiking GPT
Chips
BrainScaleS-2, DynapSE, Spinnaker2
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Norse, Nengo, Rockpool, Lava, Tonic, AE Stream, North
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Open Neuromorphic

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