1 code implementation • 25 Apr 2024 • Yannik Stradmann, Julian Göltz, Mihai A. Petrovici, Johannes Schemmel, Sebastian Billaudelle
With an increasing presence of science throughout all parts of society, there is a rising expectation for researchers to effectively communicate their work and, equally, for teachers to discuss contemporary findings in their classrooms.
no code implementations • 31 Dec 2023 • Korbinian Schreiber, Timo Wunderlich, Philipp Spilger, Sebastian Billaudelle, Benjamin Cramer, Yannik Stradmann, Christian Pehle, Eric Müller, Mihai A. Petrovici, Johannes Schemmel, Karlheinz Meier
Bees display the remarkable ability to return home in a straight line after meandering excursions to their environment.
no code implementations • 29 Aug 2023 • Julian Göltz, Sebastian Billaudelle, Laura Kriener, Luca Blessing, Christian Pehle, Eric Müller, Johannes Schemmel, Mihai A. Petrovici
Recent efforts have fostered significant progress towards deep learning in spiking networks, both theoretical and in silico.
no code implementations • 28 Feb 2023 • Elias Arnold, Georg Böcherer, Florian Strasser, Eric Müller, Philipp Spilger, Sebastian Billaudelle, Johannes Weis, Johannes Schemmel, Stefano Calabrò, Maxim Kuschnerov
The SNN demapper is implemented in software and on the analog neuromorphic hardware system BrainScaleS-2 (BSS-2).
no code implementations • 19 Sep 2022 • Sebastian Billaudelle, Johannes Weis, Philipp Dauer, Johannes Schemmel
Analog neuromorphic hardware promises fast brain emulation on the one hand and an efficient implementation of novel, brain-inspired computing paradigms on the other.
no code implementations • 17 Aug 2022 • Benjamin Cramer, Markus Kreft, Sebastian Billaudelle, Vitali Karasenko, Aron Leibfried, Eric Müller, Philipp Spilger, Johannes Weis, Johannes Schemmel, Miguel A. Muñoz, Viola Priesemann, Johannes Zierenberg
The extent of memory about past inputs is commonly quantified by the autocorrelation time of collective dynamics.
no code implementations • 21 Mar 2022 • Eric Müller, Elias Arnold, Oliver Breitwieser, Milena Czierlinski, Arne Emmel, Jakob Kaiser, Christian Mauch, Sebastian Schmitt, Philipp Spilger, Raphael Stock, Yannik Stradmann, Johannes Weis, Andreas Baumbach, Sebastian Billaudelle, Benjamin Cramer, Falk Ebert, Julian Göltz, Joscha Ilmberger, Vitali Karasenko, Mitja Kleider, Aron Leibfried, Christian Pehle, Johannes Schemmel
Neuromorphic systems open up opportunities to enlarge the explorative space for computational research.
no code implementations • 26 Jan 2022 • Christian Pehle, Sebastian Billaudelle, Benjamin Cramer, Jakob Kaiser, Korbinian Schreiber, Yannik Stradmann, Johannes Weis, Aron Leibfried, Eric Müller, Johannes Schemmel
Since the beginning of information processing by electronic components, the nervous system has served as a metaphor for the organization of computational primitives.
no code implementations • 29 Mar 2021 • Yannik Stradmann, Sebastian Billaudelle, Oliver Breitwieser, Falk Leonard Ebert, Arne Emmel, Dan Husmann, Joscha Ilmberger, Eric Müller, Philipp Spilger, Johannes Weis, Johannes Schemmel
We present the BrainScaleS-2 mobile system as a compact analog inference engine based on the BrainScaleS-2 ASIC and demonstrate its capabilities at classifying a medical electrocardiogram dataset.
no code implementations • 3 Aug 2020 • Stefanie Czischek, Andreas Baumbach, Sebastian Billaudelle, Benjamin Cramer, Lukas Kades, Jan M. Pawlowski, Markus K. Oberthaler, Johannes Schemmel, Mihai A. Petrovici, Thomas Gasenzer, Martin Gärttner
The approximation of quantum states with artificial neural networks has gained a lot of attention during the last years.
no code implementations • 23 Jun 2020 • Johannes Weis, Philipp Spilger, Sebastian Billaudelle, Yannik Stradmann, Arne Emmel, Eric Müller, Oliver Breitwieser, Andreas Grübl, Joscha Ilmberger, Vitali Karasenko, Mitja Kleider, Christian Mauch, Korbinian Schreiber, Johannes Schemmel
The neuromorphic BrainScaleS-2 ASIC comprises mixed-signal neurons and synapse circuits as well as two versatile digital microprocessors.
no code implementations • 23 Jun 2020 • Philipp Spilger, Eric Müller, Arne Emmel, Aron Leibfried, Christian Mauch, Christian Pehle, Johannes Weis, Oliver Breitwieser, Sebastian Billaudelle, Sebastian Schmitt, Timo C. Wunderlich, Yannik Stradmann, Johannes Schemmel
We present software facilitating the usage of the BrainScaleS-2 analog neuromorphic hardware system as an inference accelerator for artificial neural networks.
no code implementations • 12 Jun 2020 • Benjamin Cramer, Sebastian Billaudelle, Simeon Kanya, Aron Leibfried, Andreas Grübl, Vitali Karasenko, Christian Pehle, Korbinian Schreiber, Yannik Stradmann, Johannes Weis, Johannes Schemmel, Friedemann Zenke
To rapidly process temporal information at a low metabolic cost, biological neurons integrate inputs as an analog sum but communicate with spikes, binary events in time.
no code implementations • 30 Mar 2020 • Eric Müller, Sebastian Schmitt, Christian Mauch, Sebastian Billaudelle, Andreas Grübl, Maurice Güttler, Dan Husmann, Joscha Ilmberger, Sebastian Jeltsch, Jakob Kaiser, Johann Klähn, Mitja Kleider, Christoph Koke, José Montes, Paul Müller, Johannes Partzsch, Felix Passenberg, Hartmut Schmidt, Bernhard Vogginger, Jonas Weidner, Christian Mayr, Johannes Schemmel
We present operation and development methodologies implemented for the BrainScaleS-1 neuromorphic architecture and walk through the individual components of BrainScaleS OS constituting the software stack for BrainScaleS-1 platform operation.
no code implementations • 26 Mar 2020 • Johannes Schemmel, Sebastian Billaudelle, Phillip Dauer, Johannes Weis
The presented architecture is based upon a continuous-time, analog, physical model implementation of neurons and synapses, resembling an analog neuromorphic accelerator attached to build-in digital compute cores.
no code implementations • 25 Mar 2020 • Andreas Grübl, Sebastian Billaudelle, Benjamin Cramer, Vitali Karasenko, Johannes Schemmel
This paper presents verification and implementation methods that have been developed for the design of the BrainScaleS-2 65nm ASICs.
no code implementations • 30 Dec 2019 • Sebastian Billaudelle, Yannik Stradmann, Korbinian Schreiber, Benjamin Cramer, Andreas Baumbach, Dominik Dold, Julian Göltz, Akos F. Kungl, Timo C. Wunderlich, Andreas Hartel, Eric Müller, Oliver Breitwieser, Christian Mauch, Mitja Kleider, Andreas Grübl, David Stöckel, Christian Pehle, Arthur Heimbrecht, Philipp Spilger, Gerd Kiene, Vitali Karasenko, Walter Senn, Mihai A. Petrovici, Johannes Schemmel, Karlheinz Meier
We present first experimental results on the novel BrainScaleS-2 neuromorphic architecture based on an analog neuro-synaptic core and augmented by embedded microprocessors for complex plasticity and experiment control.
no code implementations • 27 Dec 2019 • Sebastian Billaudelle, Benjamin Cramer, Mihai A. Petrovici, Korbinian Schreiber, David Kappel, Johannes Schemmel, Karlheinz Meier
In computational neuroscience, as well as in machine learning, neuromorphic devices promise an accelerated and scalable alternative to neural network simulations.
3 code implementations • 24 Dec 2019 • Julian Göltz, Laura Kriener, Andreas Baumbach, Sebastian Billaudelle, Oliver Breitwieser, Benjamin Cramer, Dominik Dold, Akos Ferenc Kungl, Walter Senn, Johannes Schemmel, Karlheinz Meier, Mihai Alexandru Petrovici
For a biological agent operating under environmental pressure, energy consumption and reaction times are of critical importance.
no code implementations • 8 Nov 2018 • Timo Wunderlich, Akos F. Kungl, Eric Müller, Andreas Hartel, Yannik Stradmann, Syed Ahmed Aamir, Andreas Grübl, Arthur Heimbrecht, Korbinian Schreiber, David Stöckel, Christian Pehle, Sebastian Billaudelle, Gerd Kiene, Christian Mauch, Johannes Schemmel, Karlheinz Meier, Mihai A. Petrovici
Neuromorphic devices represent an attempt to mimic aspects of the brain's architecture and dynamics with the aim of replicating its hallmark functional capabilities in terms of computational power, robust learning and energy efficiency.
no code implementations • 8 May 2015 • Sebastian Billaudelle, Subutai Ahmad
Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) is a computational theory of machine intelligence based on a detailed study of the neocortex.