Which neuromorphic hardware does SNNtoolbox simulate ?

[sauravtii]

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Hello,

I have been recently using snn_toolbox, but I am still not sure which neuromorphic hardware does it simulate ? For example, I am running a couple of files from this folder and using INI as a simulator, but what neuromorphic hardware does INI use to simulate SNN ?

[rbodo]

The INI simulator does not run on neuromorphic hardware. It uses the CPU or GPU to simulate a spiking neural network consisting of integrate-and-fire neurons. The SNN toolbox can be used to prepare a network for running on Spinnaker or Loihi but that requires that you have separate access to these backends.

[sauravtii]

Okay, thank you. I have used SNN toolbox for a couple of times but I am still not sure how the conversion from an ANN to SNN actually takes place. So can you please provide some information regarding that ?

[rbodo]

Please take a look at these resources: https://snntoolbox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/intro.html https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2017.00682/full