SENSIM

An Event-driven Parallel Simulator for Multi-core Neuromorphic Systems

Conference paper (2024)

Authors

Prithvish Nembhani Stichting IMEC Nederland
Kanishkan Vadivel Stichting IMEC Nederland
Guangzhi Tang Stichting IMEC Nederland
Mohammad Tahghighi Stichting IMEC Nederland
Gert Jan Van Schaik Stichting IMEC Nederland
Manolis Sifalakis Stichting IMEC Nederland
Zaid Al-Ars Computer Engineering - EEMCS
Amirreza Yousefzadeh University of Twente
Research Group
Computer Engineering (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
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Published Date

2024

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Quantum & Computer Engineering

Research Group

Computer Engineering

Abstract

In this paper, we present SENSIM, which is an open-source simulator designed specifically for the SENECA neuromorphic processor. This simulator is unique in that it combines features from both hardware-specific and hardware-agnostic spiking neural network simulators, resulting in a hybrid event-driven and time-step-driven simulation approach. This allows for flexibility between accuracy and speed during different stages of simulation. Our work highlights the open-source SENSIM platform, which enables the mapping of large-scale SNN/DNN models to the SENECA cores, as well as the benchmarking of crucial KPIs such as power and latency estimations.

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