Week 1 Topics and Materials
Day 1 (Jun 28: Intro on Session on ANT,
Intro on Neuromorphic Hardware,
Intro on FPAA Devices (Jennifer)
1:30pm EDT (1:30pm in Atlanta, GA).
During this session, the group will discuss potential times going forward.
Day 2 (Jun 29):
Discussion on Neuromorphic hardware and FPAA Devices. (Jennifer)
Videos to watch:
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Perceptions on Analog and Digital Computing and FPAA opportunities
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Why Analog / Physical Computing?
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FPAA Introduction
- Historical Introduction to Floating-Gate (FG) Circuits:
Video
Paper to read:
- Neuromorphic
Roadmap
(Frontiers, 2013).
Short
version (IEEE Spectrum, 2017).
- FPAA
Overview
(IEEE Proceedings 2020).
Day 3 (Jun 30):
Remote FPAAs, LPF Block, transistor circuits (Jennifer)
Videos to watch:
Papers to read:
-
FPAA tool
overview
(WOSET 2020).
- Early FPAA tool paper
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Remote FPAA
System
(JPLEA 2016)
Day 4 (July 1): Starting Nengo (Terry)
Discussion:
- What sort of thing does the Nengo approach to high-level
design handle well, and what does it not do well?
- What features would
be good to add?
- Or are whole other design tools needed?
Videos to watch:
Reading:
Day 5 (July 2): Remote FPAA System Demonstration and Discussion
(Jennifer)
Videos to watch:
- FPAA: History, Development, Classification, and Directions:
Video
Papers to read:
-
1st SoC FPAA
IC
(TVLSI 2016).
Day 6 (Jul 3):More Nengo (Terry)
Continue Discussion:
- What sort of thing does the Nengo approach to high-level
design handle well, and what does it not do well?
- What features would
be good to add?
- Or are whole other design tools needed?
Reading:
Day 6 (Jul 3): FPAA Algorithm Exploration and Catch-up session (Jennifer)
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Week 2 Potential Topic List
Day 7 (Jul 5): Standard Cell Library and Resulting IC design(Jennifer):
Videos to watch:
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FPAA design tool inspiration towards potential Analog Standard Cell development
(video)
Reading:
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FPAA design tool inspiration towards potential Analog Standard Cell development
(pdf)
Day 8(Jul 6): How to put your hardware on-line(Jennifer, Terry)
(11am-11:50am session)
Papers to read:
Day 9 (Jul 7):
Braindrop and Analog Function Representation(Terry):
Videos to watch:
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Braindrop and Analog Function Representation.
The basic
background of the design ideas behind Braindrop,
without going into
Braindrop-specific details.
Day 10 (July 8): MSOS block, C4 (Jennifer)
Videos to watch:
Papers to read:
Day 11 (Jul 9): FPAA HH Neuron (Jennifer and Aishwarya)
Videos to watch:
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HH Transistor channel model
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Biological Transistor Model
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Converting Classical Channel Model to FPAA Implementation
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HH Tool example for SoC FPAA
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HH Experimental Session:
Measurement of HH Channel Transistor Model
Papers to read:
Day 12 (Jul 10): FPAA System Design I (Jennifer, 10am ATL time, 7am PHX time)
Day 12 (Jul 10):
Nengo and non-Braindrop hardware
(Terry):
Discussion:
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How well does the representations match with discussions in Day 9?
What other options could have been tried?
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Nengo opportunity 4:
Action Selection
Videos to watch:
The design details behind Braindrop:
Implemented function approximation on it.
Nengo and the Neural Engineering Framework
(NEF)(53 minutes)
Nengo and NEF and high-level
cognition(59 minutes)
Nengo opportunity 3:
Neural Symbol Systems
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