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 …

Spiking neural networks for autonomous driving: A review

FS Martínez, J Casas-Roma, L Subirats… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2024 - Elsevier
The rapid progress of autonomous driving (AD) has triggered a surge in demand for safer
and more efficient autonomous vehicles, owing to the intricacy of modern urban …

Respawn: Energy-efficient fault-tolerance for spiking neural networks considering unreliable memories

RVW Putra, MA Hanif… - 2021 IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have shown a potential for having low energy with
unsupervised learning capabilities due to their biologically-inspired computation. However …

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 …

A synapse-threshold synergistic learning approach for spiking neural networks

H Sun, W Cai, B Yang, Y Cui, Y Xia… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have demonstrated excellent capabilities in various
intelligent scenarios. Most existing methods for training SNNs are based on the concept of …

Selective hardening of critical neurons in deep neural networks

A Ruospo, G Gavarini, I Bragaglia… - … on Design and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the literature, it is argued that Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) possess a certain degree of
robustness mainly for two reasons: their distributed and parallel architecture, and their …

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 …

Fault-tolerant spiking neural network mapping algorithm and architecture to 3D-NoC-based neuromorphic systems

WY Yerima, OM Ikechukwu, KN Dang… - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Neuromorphic computing uses spiking neuron network models to solve machine learning
problems in a more energy-efficient way when compared to conventional artificial neural …

A lightweight mitigation technique for resource-constrained devices executing dnn inference models under neutron radiation

J Gava, A Hanneman, G Abich… - … on Nuclear Science, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep neural network (DNN) models are being deployed in safety-critical embedded devices
for object identification, recognition, and even trajectory prediction. Optimized versions of …