“…Since Sivilotti (Sivilotti, 1991 ) and Mahowald (Mahowald, 1992 ) first proposed the use of AER for communicating spikes, it has been used in many silicon retina and bio-inspired vision sensors (Culurciello et al, 2001 , 2003 ; Boahen, 2004 ; Lichtsteiner et al, 2008 ; Posch et al, 2010 ; Brandli et al, 2014 ). A similar event-driven approach was developed for imaging devices such as pixel array detectors (PADs) and monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPS) for scientific applications (Williams et al, 2014 ; Margarit, 2016 ). As shown in Figure 1 , a typical AER-based sender implements two functions: encoding and arbitration.…”