{"id":26582,"date":"2024-09-15T07:03:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T01:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26582"},"modified":"2025-04-08T03:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:43:00","slug":"neuromorphic-computing-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/neuromorphic-computing-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuromorphic Computing Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Neuromorphic Computing Technology:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also known as <strong>neuromorphic engineering<\/strong>, is an approach to computing that <strong>mimics <\/strong>the <strong>way the human brain works.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It entails designing hardware and software that simulate the neural and synaptic structures and functions of the brain to process information.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How does it Work?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is modeled in neuromorphic computing systems <strong>through spiking neural networks<\/strong> (SNNs).<\/li>\n<li>A spiking neural network is a type of artificial neural network composed of <strong>spiking neurons and synapses.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These spiking neurons store and process data similar to biological neurons, with each neuron having its own charge, delay and threshold values.<\/li>\n<li>Synapses create pathways between neurons and also have delay and weight values associated with them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Benefits<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Adaptability:<\/strong> Neuromorphic devices are designed for real-time learning, continuously adapting to evolving stimuli in the form of inputs and parameters.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Parallel processing: As <\/strong>SNN\u2019s asynchronous nature, individual neurons can perform different operations concurrently. So neuromorphic devices can <strong>execute as many tasks<\/strong> as there are neurons at a given time.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is neuron?<\/h3>\n<p>A neuron, also known as a nerve cell, is a specialized cell in the nervous system that is responsible for transmitting information through electrical and chemical signals. Neurons are the basic building blocks of the nervous system and play a crucial role in processing and transmitting information within the body.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/iisc-scientists-develop-brain-inspired-analog-computing-platform-capable-of-storing-processing-data\/article68633502.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>IISc scientists develop brain-inspired analog computing platform capable of storing, processing data<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuromorphic Computing Technology is also known as neuromorphic engineering, is an approach to computing that mimics the way the human brain works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}