Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: RANC: Reconfigurable Architecture for Neuromorphic Computing   Neuromorphic architectures have been introduced as platforms for energy
efficient spiking neural network execution. The massive parallelism offered by
these architectures has also triggered interest from non-machine learning
application domains. In order to lift the barriers to entry for hardware
designers and application developers we present RANC: a Reconfigurable
Architecture for Neuromorphic Computing, an open-source highly flexible
ecosystem that enables rapid experimentation with neuromorphic architectures in
both software via C++ simulation and hardware via FPGA emulation. We present
the utility of the RANC ecosystem by showing its ability to recreate behavior
of the IBM's TrueNorth and validate with direct comparison to IBM's Compass
simulation environment and published literature. RANC allows optimizing
architectures based on application insights as well as prototyping future
neuromorphic architectures that can support new classes of applications
entirely. We demonstrate the highly parameterized and configurable nature of
RANC by studying the impact of architectural changes on improving application
mapping efficiency with quantitative analysis based on Alveo U250 FPGA. We
present post routing resource usage and throughput analysis across
implementations of Synthetic Aperture Radar classification and Vector Matrix
Multiplication applications, and demonstrate a neuromorphic architecture that
scales to emulating 259K distinct neurons and 73.3M distinct synapses.

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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: nlin
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The categories of this paper are: astro-ph
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: q-bio
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph