Accelerated Analog Neuromorphic Computing

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This paper presents the concepts behind the BrainScales (BSS) accelerated analog neuromorphic computing architecture.

• It describes the second-generation BrainScales-2 (BSS-2) version and its most recent in-silico realization, the HICANN-X Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), as it has been developed as part of the neuromorphic computing activities within the European Human Brain Project (HBP).
• While the first generation is implemented in an 180nm process, the second generation uses 65nm technology.
• This allows the integration of a digital plasticity processing unit, a highly-parallel micro processor specially built for the computational needs of learning in an accelerated analog neuromorphic systems.