Accelerators for biologically-inspired attention and recognition
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Design Automation Conference
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Implementations of neuromorphic algorithms are traditionally implemented on platforms which consume significant power, falling short of their biologically underpinnings. Recent improvements in FPGA technology have led to FPGAs becoming a platform in which these rapidly evolving algorithms can be implemented. Unfortunately, implementing designs on FPGAs still prove challenging for nonexperts, limiting their use in the neuroscience domain. In this paper, a FPGA framework is presented which enables neuroscientists to compose multi-FPGA systems for a cortical object classification model. This is demonstrated by mapping this algorithm onto two distinct platforms providing speedups of up to ~28X over a reference CPU implementation.