Hi Baisyet,Hi @Diogenese so does that mean we are not Neuromorphic Chip? As I dont have much knowledge in this technical field. As having invested much of my savings, this is second commentary on BRN ,Were we dupe so far :-( thanks
Not at all. For the purists, who insist on a spike, Akida still does 1-bit weights and activations for low power, high speed applications which are not too demanding on accuracy.
Possibly the other point of distinction for the purists who cut their teeth on analog, analog is much closer to a neuron in that it does sum voltages until they reach a threshold voltage value as does a neuron, whereas Akida counts the number of input bits until a threshold count is reached. On reflection, this is the more likely differentiator.
Many of the academic researchers have been toiling away at analog for decades and perhaps they take a proprietary interest in the term "neuromorphic".
The problem with analog is manufacturing variability, in that the dimensions cannot be strictly controlled so the electrical characteristics of the individual capacitors varies, which is significant when many thousands/millions of capacitors are involved ...
So it is odd as Jason said he did not want to emulate the neuron so much as to draw inspiration from it.