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We just open-sourced SpikeLink v2 — a spike-native transport protocol purpose-built for neuromorphic chip-to-chip communication. The problem: neuromorphic processors like Intel's Loihi 3 and BrainChip's Akida communicate internally through spikes — asynchronous, event-driven signals where...
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Hi Rach,
I don't think the possum is in the tree Jesus is barking up.
He's labouring under a misconception that Akida's "spikes" are analog and not normal binary digital bytes. The prototype Akida 1 used a single binary bit to represent a spike, but it was not an analog spike. It was a binary digital bit. The commercial version upped the "spike" to 4 binary digital bits. Akida does not need ADC (analog to digital converter) to talk to associated digital equipment. In fact Akida has a number of external digital interfaces adapted to utilize different digital communication protocols without using ADC
An ADC converts an analog voltage signal to digital format by producing a digital byte whose value is proportional to the size of the spike voltage. Manufacturing variability and temperature instability make this an unreliable process when thousands of ADC operations are involved.
Akida 3/GenAI will move away from an internal packet transport mesh to a solid state switched transport mesh because this gets rid of the packet header overload (to which Jesus has directed his efforts) and the associated bit switching operations.
