Neuromorphic Chips
- Neuromorphic chips are special hardware that runs simulated
neurons. The HBP has settled on two types of chips.
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SpiNNaker is from Steve Furber's group at the University of
Manchester.
- It specialises in point models.
- Chips can be put together in a donut topology. I used a four chip
version in 2011 at the neuromorphic workshop in Telluride.
- I'm pretty sure we can simulate a billion of my neurons in
real time with the 500 chip version.
- The
HICANN chip is at the Univeristy of Heidelberg.
- It's analogue hardware with analogue neurons and synapses.
