This comes under the category of neuromorphic engineering. It is an excellent question, of which I am trying to find an answer for months now! I bet there is m

This comes under the category of neuromorphic engineering. It is an excellent question, of which I am trying to find an answer for months now! I bet there is more, just buried under varied publications, and I am sure that they created a DSL for their specialized brain based chip. The most obvious and battle tested way to program a NeuroSynaptic hardware is to create models of the brain (any application) in an algorithm and burning it with an HDL into an fpga or an fpaa. For computation of numerical entities, a small controller running a customized embedded software is used.