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An efficient neural cell architecture for spiking neural networks

Research Abstract

Neurons in a Spiking Neural Network (SNN) communicate using electrical pulses or spikes. They fire or trigger conditionally, and learning is sensitive to such triggers' timing and duration. The Leaky Integrate and Fire (LIF) model is the most widely used SNN neuron model. Most existing LIF-based neurons use a fixed spike frequency, which prevents them from attaining near-optimal accuracy. A research challenge is to design energy and area-efficient SNN neural cells that provide high learning accuracy and are scalable. Recently, the idea of tuning the spiking pulses in SNN was proposed and found promising. This work builds on the pulse-tuning idea by proposing an area and energy-efficient, stable, and reconfigurable SNN cell that generates spikes and reconfigures its pulse width to achieve near-optimal learning. It auto-adapts spike rate and duration to attain near-optimal accuracies for various SNN applications. The …

Research Authors
Kasem Khalil, Ashok Kumar, Magdy Bayoumi
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Research Journal
IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society
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Research Website
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10972324
Research Year
2025