Von Neuromann: Making Neuromorphic The Underlayment

Today we simulate neuromorphic computing on top of Von Neumann GPU architectures mainly because they provide inexpensive parallelism.  However they are also ridiculously power-inefficient when compared with the brain.  I... [ view full abstract ]

Today we simulate neuromorphic computing on top of Von Neumann GPU architectures mainly because they provide inexpensive parallelism.  However they are also ridiculously power-inefficient when compared with the brain.  I propose instead that we build Von Neumann architectures on top of analog neuromorphic substrates.  I will discuss how the new neuromorphic substrate is similar to an FPGA and also present a few other, likely unverifiable, claims. (Since this is before the November election, I can promise anything I want to.  Pi = 3?  Sure.)