Title
A review of basic software for brain-inspired computing
Abstract
Brain-inspired computing, which is inspired by the information processing procedure and the biophysiological structure of the brain, is believed to have the potential to drive the next wave of computer engineering and provide a promising way for the next generation of artificial intelligence. The basic software for brain-inspired computing is the core link to realize the research goals of brain-inspired computing and build the ecological environment of brain-inspired computing applications. This paper reviews the status of the three major kinds of basic software for brain-inspired computing. Namely, the toolchains for neuromorphic chips, the software simulation frameworks, and the frameworks that integrate spiking neural networks (SNNs) and deep neural networks (DNNs). Afterward, we point out that a "general-purpose" hierarchical and HW/SW decoupled basic software framework would be beneficial to both the (computational) neuroscience and brain-inspired intelligence fields. And the notion “general-purpose” refers to the decoupling of software and hardware and supports the integration of computer science and neuroscience related research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/s42514-022-00092-1
CCF Transactions on High Performance Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Brain-inspired computing, Basic software, Neuromorphic toolchains, SNN simulation, Decoupling software and hardware
Journal
4
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
2524-4922
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
23
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peng Qu1132.68
Le Yang210.69
Weimin Zheng31889182.48
Youhui Zhang420228.36