Research

Papers, validation, and benchmarks.

Latest

Catalyst N2 Paper

Full Loihi 2 Parity in an Open Neuromorphic Architecture

17 pages. Architecture, programmable neuron models, multi-backend SDK, hardware validation.

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First Generation

Catalyst N1 Paper

A 128-Core Spiking Neuromorphic Processor

13 pages. Architecture, instruction set, SDK, benchmarks.

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Hardware Validation

N2 has been validated on real programmable hardware. Every test passing. Cycle-accurate, bit-exact results matching the software simulation.

28/28
All validation tests passing
Basic spike propagation
Multi-core routing
Learning convergence
Programmable neuron models
Graded spike payloads
Deployment and runtime
Performance benchmarks

Benchmarks

85.9%
SHD Benchmark (float)

Spiking Heidelberg Digits — speech recognition with spiking neural networks.

85.4%
SHD Benchmark (quantized)

Hardware-accurate fixed-point mode. Only 0.5% accuracy loss from quantization.

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