Create a LoihiCore Process?

[tcstewar]

Would it be possible to create a Process that lets you manually define a Loihi core (using calls to NxCore)? The Connections in and out would route spikes into and out of that core, and that'd let people do any sort of custom thing that they want to do and have the rest of the system be all nengo-ish.

[tbekolay]

Possibly... is the intention that people would be making their own raw calls to NxSDK? If so, then yeah it would be essentially the same as the TensorNode in NengoDL. It could be implemented in such a way that you don't even need nengo_loihi.Simulator and just nengo.Simulator, but that depends on how this is intended to be used.

[tcstewar]

It could be implemented in such a way that you don't even need nengo_loihi.Simulator and just nengo.Simulator, but that depends on how this is intended to be used.

Ooo... I hadn't even thought of that use case. I was just thinking it being used in a nengo_loihi.Simulator (so it could interface quickly with cores programmed with normal nengo_loihi), but ideally I'd love both use cases.