International Business Machines Corporation
On-chip Poisson spike generation

Abstract:

A spiking neural network device including a spiking neural network circuit including a crossbar array of plural synapses; plural axons connected with the spiking neural network circuit, the plural axons receiving input of a spike signal; and plural Poisson spike generators respectively provided for the plural axons. Each Poisson spike generator can be set whether or not to emit the spike signal based on an input signal to be processed, and each Poisson spike generator can, be set to emit the spike signal being configured to generate a Poisson spike train different from each other. and supply the Poisson spike train to a corresponding one of the plural axons.