Ben Abdallah A., Dang K.N. Neuromorphic Computing Principles and Organization

Springer, 2022. — 259 p. — ISBN: 3030925242.The term neuromorphic is generally used to describe analog, digital, mixed-mode analog/digital VLSI, and software systems that implement several models of neural systems. The implementation of neuromorphic computing on the hardware level can be realized by various technologies, including spintronic memories, threshold switches, CMOS transistors, and oxide-based memristors.This book focuses on neuromorphic computing principles and organization and how to build fault-tolerant scalable hardware for large and medium scale spiking neural networks with learning capabilities. In addition, the book describes in a comprehensive way the organization and how to design a spike-based neuromorphic system to perform network of spiking neurons communication, computing, and adaptive learning for emerging AI applications. The book begins with an overview of neuromorphic computing systems and explores the fundamental concepts of artificial neural networks. Next, we discuss artificial neurons and how they have evolved in their representation of biological neuronal dynamics. Afterward, we discuss implementing these neural networks in neuron models, storage technologies, inter-neuron communication networks, learning, and various design approaches. Then, comes the fundamental design principle to build an efficient neuromorphic system in hardware. The challenges that need to be solved toward building a spiking neural network architecture with many synapses are discussed. Learning in neuromorphic computing systems and the major emerging memory technologies that promise neuromorphic computing are then given.True PDF