Neuromorphic Software Tools and Development Environments

Abstract

We are seeing a technological transformation now that was unthinkable ten years ago. Although introducing artificial intelligence (AI) in contemporary business theoretically permits unrestricted expansion, the dreaded power-wall issue in the parallel computing paradigm prevents us from fully using AI's potential. Because they are expected to operate at extremely low power, modern Neuromorphic accelerators provide a profitable substitute for conventional artificial neural network (ANN) accelerators for deep learning (DL). Neuromorphic accelerators are centred on Spiking Neural Networks (SNN), which seek to mimic the extremely energy-efficient mechanism operating in our brains. This chapter covers the general overview of Neuromorphic software tools and development environments, including platforms, frameworks, and best practices.