IBM TrueNorth

Realizes: event-driven spiking neural network inference with massively parallel neurosynaptic cores

IBM TrueNorth is a 45 nm CMOS neurosynaptic chip with one million programmable spiking neurons and 256 million configurable synapses. It realizes massively parallel, event-driven computation with asynchronous low-power inter-core communication, enabling pattern recognition and sensor fusion workloads inspired by biology.

Examples

TrueNorth Neurosynaptic Vision Demo

Demo pairs an address-event-representation vision sensor with a spiking convolutional network implemented on TrueNorth to recognize gestures and scene categories in real time with ultra-low power.

Event-driven spiking CNN inference on address-event-representation sensor streams for gestures and scenes mapped across 4,096 neurosynaptic cores with asynchronous synaptic routing. real-time chip-scale picojoule-range