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 …

Neural coding in spiking neural networks: A comparative study for robust neuromorphic systems

W Guo, ME Fouda, AM Eltawil… - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Various hypotheses of information representation in brain, referred to as neural codes, have
been proposed to explain the information transmission between neurons. Neural coding …

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 …

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 …

Neuron fault tolerance in spiking neural networks

T Spyrou, SA El-Sayed, E Afacan… - … , Automation & Test …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The error-resiliency of Artificial Intelligence (AI) hardware accelerators is a major concern,
especially when they are deployed in mission-critical and safety-critical applications. In this …

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 …

Spikingjet: Enhancing fault injection for fully and convolutional spiking neural networks

AB Göğebakan, E Magliano… - 2024 IEEE 30th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As artificial neural networks have become increasingly integrated into safety-critical systems
such as autonomous vehicles, devices for medical diagnosis, and industrial automation …

Compact functional testing for neuromorphic computing circuits

SA El-Sayed, T Spyrou… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address the problem of testing artificial intelligence (AI) hardware accelerators
implementing spiking neural networks (SNNs). We define a metric to quickly rank available …

Improving reliability of spiking neural networks through fault aware threshold voltage optimization

A Siddique, KA Hoque - 2023 Design, Automation & Test in …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spiking neural networks have made breakthroughs in computer vision by lending
themselves to neuromorphic hardware. However, the neuromorphic hardware lacks …