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NeuromorphicProcessorProject / snn_toolbox

Toolbox for converting analog to spiking neural networks (ANN to SNN), and running them in a spiking neuron simulator.
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Energy and runtime estimation for running the SNN on neuromorphic simulator #139

Closed shreshth-29 closed 9 months ago

shreshth-29 commented 1 year ago

From what I understand, the results are obtained on a neuromorphic simulator (INI for example). It gives the performance metrics, but I was wondering if there was a way to obtain the energy consumption, inference time and the no. of MACC operations as well?

rbodo commented 1 year ago

Hi, for the INI simulator, you also get the number of MACC operations, but not energy consumption or inference time because the simulation runs on a GPU and does not reflect truly asynchronous processing on dedicated hardware. See also #70 for an explanation of the logged data.

shreshth-29 commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the reply! Now for the snn , we get 'operations' and not 'mac' operations. Are these all accumulate operations or multiply and accumulate?

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Hi, for the INI simulator, you also get the number of MACC operations, but not energy consumption or inference time because the simulation runs on a GPU and does not reflect truly asynchronous processing on dedicated hardware. See also #70 https://github.com/NeuromorphicProcessorProject/snn_toolbox/issues/70 for an explanation of the logged data.

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rbodo commented 1 year ago

only accumulate ops in the SNN.