articleIEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and SystemsAug 28, 2015Closed access

TrueNorth: Design and Tool Flow of a 65 mW 1 Million Neuron Programmable Neurosynaptic Chip

FAFilipp AkopyanJSJun SawadaASAndrew S. CassidyRARodrigo Alvarez-IcazaJVJohn V. Arthur

IBM Research - Almaden · IBM Research - Tokyo · +4 more institutions

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Abstract

The new era of cognitive computing brings forth the grand challenge of developing systems capable of processing massive amounts of noisy multisensory data. This type of intelligent computing poses a set of constraints, including real-time operation, low-power consumption and scalability, which require a radical departure from conventional system design. Brain-inspired architectures offer tremendous promise in this area. To this end, we developed TrueNorth, a 65 mW real-time neurosynaptic processor that implements a non-von Neumann, low-power, highly-parallel, scalable, and defect-tolerant architecture. With 4096 neurosynaptic cores, the TrueNorth chip contains 1 million digital neurons and 256 million synapses…

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  • Computer science
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