Hardware Podcasts

Digital Prototypes May Enable Analog Neuromorphic Chips

EE Times Current · 6 Jun 2025 · 52m

What this episode covers

Dr. Charlotte Frenkel, an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, discusses her work on neuromorphic chips, including the digital Odin chip and the Reckon chip, explaining how she uses digital prototypes to enable efficient analog designs. She details the creation of the Neurobench project to establish fair, evolving benchmarks for the field, addressing the pain of inconsistent metrics like picojoules per synaptic operation. The episode also features a discussion with Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings of Johns Hopkins University on the challenges of standardizing benchmarks and the trade-offs between digital prototyping and analog implementation.

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Companies
Delft University of Technology, University College London, Johns Hopkins University, Czech Technical University, Technical University of Munich
Products
Odin, Reckon, Neurobench, IBM TrueNorth, Lohi, E-Props, Iprop
Also
Giacomo Indiveri, David Bol, Jacquemo, Devery, Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Sunny Bains, Julia D'Angelo, Taylor Marvin, Brad Ammonia, Scendia, Jason Yip, Lisa Donati, Elisa, Dan Hammerstrom, Izikovich, Gordon Chen

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