Brain-like hardware, do we need it?
The brain’s ability to perform efficient and fault-tolerant data processing is strongly related to its peculiar interconnected adaptive architecture, based on redundant neural circuits interacting at different scales. By emulating the brain’s processing and learning mechanisms, computing technologie...
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| author | Francesca Borghi Thierry R. Nieus Davide E. Galli Paolo Milani |
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| description | The brain’s ability to perform efficient and fault-tolerant data processing is strongly related to its peculiar interconnected adaptive architecture, based on redundant neural circuits interacting at different scales. By emulating the brain’s processing and learning mechanisms, computing technologies strive to achieve higher levels of energy efficiency and computational performance. Although efforts to address neuromorphic solutions through hardware based on top-down CMOS-based technologies have obtained interesting results in terms of energetic efficiency improvement, the replication of brain’s self-assembled and redundant architectures is not considered in the roadmaps of data processing electronics. The exploration of solutions based on self-assembled elemental blocks to mimic biological networks’ complexity is explored in the general frame of unconventional computing and it has not reached yet a maturity stage enabling a benchmark with standard electronic approaches in terms of performances, compatibility and scalability. Here we discuss some aspects related to advantages and disadvantages in the emulation of the brain for neuromorphic hardware. We also discuss possible directions in terms of hybrid hardware solutions where self-assembled substrates coexist and integrate with conventional electronics in view of neuromorphic architectures. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f5470796555a443c86d9b34bba2c57ae2024-12-16T06:18:38ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Neuroscience1662-453X2024-12-011810.3389/fnins.2024.14657891465789Brain-like hardware, do we need it?Francesca Borghi0Thierry R. Nieus1Davide E. Galli2Paolo Milani3CIMAINA and Dipartimento di Fisica “A. Pontremoli”, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, ItalyDipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, ItalyCIMAINA and Dipartimento di Fisica “A. Pontremoli”, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, ItalyCIMAINA and Dipartimento di Fisica “A. Pontremoli”, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, ItalyThe brain’s ability to perform efficient and fault-tolerant data processing is strongly related to its peculiar interconnected adaptive architecture, based on redundant neural circuits interacting at different scales. By emulating the brain’s processing and learning mechanisms, computing technologies strive to achieve higher levels of energy efficiency and computational performance. Although efforts to address neuromorphic solutions through hardware based on top-down CMOS-based technologies have obtained interesting results in terms of energetic efficiency improvement, the replication of brain’s self-assembled and redundant architectures is not considered in the roadmaps of data processing electronics. The exploration of solutions based on self-assembled elemental blocks to mimic biological networks’ complexity is explored in the general frame of unconventional computing and it has not reached yet a maturity stage enabling a benchmark with standard electronic approaches in terms of performances, compatibility and scalability. Here we discuss some aspects related to advantages and disadvantages in the emulation of the brain for neuromorphic hardware. We also discuss possible directions in terms of hybrid hardware solutions where self-assembled substrates coexist and integrate with conventional electronics in view of neuromorphic architectures.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2024.1465789/fullneuromorphicunconventional computingCMOSnanoparticle networksperceptronhardware |
| spellingShingle | Francesca Borghi Thierry R. Nieus Davide E. Galli Paolo Milani Brain-like hardware, do we need it? Frontiers in Neuroscience neuromorphic unconventional computing CMOS nanoparticle networks perceptron hardware |
| title | Brain-like hardware, do we need it? |
| title_full | Brain-like hardware, do we need it? |
| title_fullStr | Brain-like hardware, do we need it? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Brain-like hardware, do we need it? |
| title_short | Brain-like hardware, do we need it? |
| title_sort | brain like hardware do we need it |
| topic | neuromorphic unconventional computing CMOS nanoparticle networks perceptron hardware |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2024.1465789/full |
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