Testability and dependability of AI hardware: Survey, trends, challenges, and perspectives

F Su, C Liu, HG Stratigopoulos - IEEE Design & Test, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hardware realization of artificial intelligence (AI) requires new design styles and even
underlying technologies than those used in traditional digital processors or logic circuits …

Testing and reliability of spiking neural networks: A review of the state-of-the-art

HG Stratigopoulos, T Spyrou… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Neuromorphic computing based on Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) is an emerging
computing paradigm inspired by the functionality of the biological brain. Given its potential to …

Towards energy-efficient and secure edge AI: A cross-layer framework ICCAD special session paper

M Shafique, A Marchisio, RVW Putra… - 2021 IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The security and privacy concerns along with the amount of data that is required to be
processed on regular basis has pushed processing to the edge of the computing systems …

Integrating visual perception with decision making in neuromorphic fault-tolerant quadruplet-spike learning framework

S Yang, H Wang, Y Pang, Y Jin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The brain possesses the remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate perception with decision
making within a dynamically changing environment in a fault-tolerant, end-to-end manner …

SoftSNN: Low-cost fault tolerance for spiking neural network accelerators under soft errors

RVW Putra, MA Hanif, M Shafique - Proceedings of the 59th ACM/IEEE …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Specialized hardware accelerators have been designed and employed to maximize the
performance efficiency of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs). However, such accelerators are …

Reliability analysis of a spiking neural network hardware accelerator

T Spyrou, SA El-Sayed, E Afacan… - … , Automation & Test …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the parallelism and sparsity in neural network models, their transfer into hardware
unavoidably makes them susceptible to hardware-level faults. Hardware-level faults can …

TopSpark: a timestep optimization methodology for energy-efficient spiking neural networks on autonomous mobile agents

RVW Putra, M Shafique - 2023 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous mobile agents (eg, mobile ground robots and UAVs) typically require low-
power/energy-efficient machine learning (ML) algorithms to complete their ML-based tasks …

lpspikecon: Enabling low-precision spiking neural network processing for efficient unsupervised continual learning on autonomous agents

RVW Putra, M Shafique - 2022 International Joint Conference …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances have shown that Spiking Neural Network (SNN)-based systems can
efficiently perform unsuper-vised continual learning due to their bio-plausible learning rule …

EnforceSNN: Enabling resilient and energy-efficient spiking neural network inference considering approximate DRAMs for embedded systems

RVW Putra, MA Hanif, M Shafique - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have shown capabilities of achieving high accuracy under
unsupervised settings and low operational power/energy due to their bio-plausible …

enpheeph: A fault injection framework for spiking and compressed deep neural networks

A Colucci, A Steininger… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Research on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has focused on improving performance and
accuracy for real-world deployments, leading to new models, such as Spiking Neural …