Signal #123351POSITIVE

Spiking Neural Network inference on FPGAs with hls4ml

70

arXiv:2606.10008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) provide a naturally temporal machine-learning framework. Their neurons maintain an internal state and propagate information through discrete spikes, enabling low-latency temporal inference. Although SNNs are often associated with asynchronous neuromorphic processors, many scientific real-time inference systems rely on conventional synchronous field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and high-level synthesis (HLS) workflows. In this paper we present an extension of hls4ml that enables clock-driven deployment of SNNs trained in pytorch onto FPGA firmware. We demonstrate the workflow using a dense quantised SNN trained on the Heidelberg Spiking Digits dataset where it achieves inference latencies of approximately $34\mu$s. We validate the generated design through software reference comparisons, HLS C simulation, HLS synthesis, export, and Vivado synthesis reports. This work opens up the hls4ml toolkit to neuromor...

arXiv Neural/NEabout 4 hours ago
Read Full Article

Explore with AI-Powered Tools

View All Signals

Explore more AI intelligence

Want to discover more AI signals like this?

Explore Steek
Spiking Neural Network inference on FPGAs with hls4ml | Steek AI Signal | Steek