Dharmendra S. Modha

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IEEE Computer Cover Feature — TrueNorth: Accelerating From Zero to 64 Million Neurons in 10 Years

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May 2019 issue of IEEE Computer Magazine’s Cover Features highlights an article summarizing ten years of innovation from IBM Research.

Abstract: IBM’s brain-inspired processor is a massively parallel neural network inference engine containing 1 million spiking neurons and 256 million low-precision synapses. Now, after a decade of fundamental research spanning neuroscience, architecture, chips, systems, software, and algorithms, IBM has delivered the largest neurosynaptic computer ever built.

FIGURE 1. The timeline of the development of TrueNorth.
FIGURE 3. The 64-processor scale-out NS16e-4.
FIGURE 5. A decade of neuromorphic applications on TrueNorth.