EMBRACE-SysC for analysis of NoC-based Spiking Neural Network architectures

Abstract

This paper presents EMBRACE-SysC, a simulation-based design exploration framework for the EMBRACE mixed signal Network on Chip (NoC)-based hardware Spiking Neural Network (SNN) architecture. EMBRACE-SysC incorporates Genetic Algorithm-based training of SNN applications. Results illustrate the application of EMBRACE-SysC for performance analysis of a NoC-based SNN architecture. The development of EMBRACE-SysC introduces a powerful design exploration framework for EMBRACE architecture development.