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Nah. There are legitimate reasons for doing this. Especially when spiking neurons are implemented using analogue circuits (which I could find no indication of i
by aurelian15 9y ago
Nah. There are legitimate reasons for doing this. Especially when spiking neurons are implemented using analogue circuits (which I could find no indication of in the press release however, but see [1,2,3,4] for examples) spiking neurons offer significant advantages, such as extremely low power consumption, intrinsic dynamics, and asynchronicity (which again, reduces power consumption by not requiring clocks).
[1] https://brainscales.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/ https://brainscales.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/
[2] http://www.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/vision/spikey/ http://www.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/vision/spikey/
[3] https://web.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/neurogrid.html https://web.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/neurogrid.htm...
[4] http://ncs.ethz.ch/ http://ncs.ethz.ch/
- shard 9y agoI was looking for clarification as to whether the neurons are implemented as analog circuits as well, especially with the reference to Dr. Carver Mead in the beginning of the article, who has a long history of working on analog neuron circuits, but I did not see any explicit references to whether the neurons were digital or analog.
- IncRnd 9y agoThank you!