Abstract:
Spiking neural networks and neuromorphic systems have attracted ever increasing interests recently, due to their high computational efficiency by imitating the functional...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Spiking neural networks and neuromorphic systems have attracted ever increasing interests recently, due to their high computational efficiency by imitating the functional mechanism of cerebral cortex. However, endowing low-cost neuromorphic chips with real-time high-accuracy on-chip learning plasticity for edge applications is still challenging. In this work, we present a digital edge neuromorphic chip for real-time high-accuracy on-chip multi-layer SNN learning in visual recognition tasks. It employs a hierarchical multi-core architecture, a dynamically reconfigurable array parallelism and a quasi-event-driven scheme to improve processing speed. A prototype chip with a core area of 10.39 mm2 was fabricated using a 65-nm 1P9M CMOS process, and typically achieved a real-time speed of 87 frames/s and a power dissipation of 106 mW at an 83 MHz clock rate when training a 4-layer fully-connected SNN. Our chip attained comparably high recognition accuracies of 96.29%, 84.95%, 86.13%, 85.07% and 100% on the MNIST, Fashion-MNIST, ETH-80, MNIST-DVS and Poker-DVS datasets, respectively, with an energy efficiency of 97 pJ/SOP for learning and 30 pJ/SOP for inference.
Date of Conference: 13-15 October 2022
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 16 November 2022
ISBN Information:
Print on Demand(PoD) ISSN: 2163-4025