University of Groningen to develop applications for SynSense’s Neuromorphic hardware

2023-11-06

By SynSense

Professor Elisabetta Chicca, Professor at CogniGron, inspecting a robot using Neuromorphic sensor technology. — Professor Elisabetta Chicca, colleague Thorben Schoepe and a robot that has a neuromorphic vision processor inspired by the fly brain. (Source: Marleen Annema, University of Groningen)

SynSense and CogniGron / University of Groningen are today announcing a collaboration to evaluate the low-power Neuromorphic sensory processors from SynSense.

The CogniGron research groups will use the Speck™ low-power vision system to develop visually guided closed-loop systems. They will also evaluate the Xylo™ microWatt Audio processing platform to explore auditory scene analysis applications.

“CogniGron is very keen on collaborating with SynSense to demonstrate the huge energy savings that are possible by using neuromorphic chips in data-intensive applications,” said Beatriz Noheda, professor at the University of Groningen and director of CogniGron. “It is important for our scientists to stay in touch with the newest developments and the leading companies in the field.”

“Research collaborations such as these are especially important for SynSense, both to support the next generation of Neuromorphic application engineers, and to gain valuable insight and feedback to shape future generations of our hardware,” said Dr Dylan Muir, VP for Global Research Operations at SynSense.

“We are excited to work with CogniGron on new applications and methodologies, particularly considering their broad expertise across computational and theoretical disciplines.”

About CogniGron

CogniGron was founded in 2018 within the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, thanks to a 30M Euro private donation. CogniGron mission is to create the conditions for multidisciplinary research aimed to develop cognitive computing, the only existing paradigm that can propose a factor 1000 energy savings in applications that currently require the use of data centers and supercomputers for processing large amounts of data. This goal needs a coordinating effort in educating students and scholars in order to come up with solutions at all levels: from materials that can learn to devices, circuits and algorithms.

About SynSense

SynSense is a world-leading neuromorphic engineering company. SynSense provides custom-tailored, ultra-low-power silicon design solutions for industrial and consumer machine-learning inference applications. As a “full-stack” neuromorphic engineering company, SynSense delivers complete solutions, including custom IP, hardware, and software configurations to meet specific application needs. SynSense was founded in March 2017 in Zürich Switzerland, based on ground-breaking advances in neuromorphic computing hardware developed at the Institute of Neuroinformatics of the University of Zurich and the ETH Zurich.

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