{"id":164,"date":"2022-05-23T14:36:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T14:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neuromorphicrobotics.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2022-05-23T14:37:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T14:37:58","slug":"how-to-build-a-reference-software-architecture-for-brain-inspired-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"How to build a reference software architecture for brain-inspired computers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Shuiguang Deng, Pan Lv, and Ouwen Jin, <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Schahram Dustdar, <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Ying Li, De Ma, Zhaohui Wu, and Gang Pan. <\/span>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.computer.org\/csdl\/magazine\/co\/2022\/05\/09771131\/1DeF1eZGsRW\"><strong>Darwin-S: A Reference Software Architecture for Brain-Inspired Computers<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; in Computer, vol. 55, no. 05, pp. 51-63, 2022. doi: 10.1109\/MC.2022.3144397<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;With the reduction of the semiconductor process size, the problems of \u201cmemory wall\u201d and \u201cpower wall\u201d in von Neumann architectures are becoming increasingly prominent. To solve these problems, brain-inspired computing unifies computing and storage.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\"><strong>A general-purpose architecture<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">&#8220;Darwin-S is designed to be applicable across different underlying hardware architectures, and this generality is fundamentally based on our abstraction of brain-inspired computers. The architecture and implementation methods among different brain-inspired hardware platforms are utterly different. However, the basic design principle is the same:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\n<li><span class=\"fontstyle2\">using a large number of specially designed neurosynaptic cores (for example, crossbars on Loihi and TrueNorth, and ARM cores on SpiNNaker)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"fontstyle2\">simulating neurons dynamics in parallel<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"fontstyle2\">storing synapses\u2019 weight data within or near each neurosynaptic core <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"fontstyle2\">neurosynaptic cores switch spiking messages through specially designed connection paths (for example, networks on chip or Ethernet).&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A reference architecture for brain-inspired computers is shown in Fig.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-165 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/The-reference-software-architecture-for-a-brain-inspired-computer--1024x757.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/The-reference-software-architecture-for-a-brain-inspired-computer--1024x757.png 1024w, https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/The-reference-software-architecture-for-a-brain-inspired-computer--300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/The-reference-software-architecture-for-a-brain-inspired-computer--768x568.png 768w, https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/The-reference-software-architecture-for-a-brain-inspired-computer--1536x1136.png 1536w, https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/The-reference-software-architecture-for-a-brain-inspired-computer-.png 1816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fig. A Reference Software Architecture for Brain-Inspired Computers\u00a0 (Fig source: <span class=\"fontstyle0\">Deng et al. Computer, 2022)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shuiguang Deng, Pan Lv, and Ouwen Jin, Schahram Dustdar, Ying Li, De Ma, Zhaohui Wu, and Gang Pan. &#8220;Darwin-S: A Reference Software Architecture for Brain-Inspired Computers&#8221; in Computer, vol. 55, no. 05, pp. 51-63, 2022. doi: 10.1109\/MC.2022.3144397 Abstract: &#8220;With the reduction of the semiconductor process size, the problems of \u201cmemory wall\u201d and \u201cpower wall\u201d in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuromorphic-computing","category-neuromorphic-intelligence","tag-neuromorphic-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspiredrobotics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}