Extending BrainScaleS OS for BrainScaleS-2

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13750v1
• Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:58:55 GMT
• Title: Extending BrainScaleS OS for BrainScaleS-2
• Authors: Eric M\"uller, Christian Mauch, Philipp Spilger, Oliver Julien Breitwieser, Johann Kl\"ahn, David St\"ockel, Timo Wunderlich, Johannes Schemmel
• Abstract summary: We present and walk through the software enhancements that were introduced for the BrainScaleS-2 architecture. BrainScaleS OS is a software stack designed for the user-friendly operation of the BrainScaleS architecture.
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• Abstract: BrainScaleS-2 is a mixed-signal accelerated neuromorphic system targeted for research in the fields of computational neuroscience and beyond-von-Neumann computing. To augment its flexibility, the analog neural network core is accompanied by an embedded SIMD microprocessor. The BrainScaleS Operating System (BrainScaleS OS) is a software stack designed for the user-friendly operation of the BrainScaleS architectures. We present and walk through the software-architectural enhancements that were introduced for the BrainScaleS-2 architecture. Finally, using a second-version BrainScaleS-2 prototype we demonstrate its application in an example experiment based on spike-based expectation maximization.

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