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The NEUROKIT2E project aims at proposing a Deep Learning Platform for Embedded Hardware around an established European value chain (providing AI hardware and software). This open-source platform will provide the necessary tools for Europe to play on the same level with its American and Chinese competitors, and take the lead on a competitive aspect (still underdeveloped but which will quickly prove to be essential): embedded AI.
The NEUROKIT2E’s offer targets to serve European industry needs as a priority, enabling easy and fast Neural Network design, optimization and implementation on constrained hardware targets. This challenging development will be powered using N2D2 (for Neural Network Design & Deployment) platform, developed by CEA, Coordinator of NEUROKIT2E, for the exploration and development of AI applications, and embed specific hardware components from European players such as NANOXPLORE, STMICRO, , all members of the NEUROKIT2E consortium. NEUROKIT2E will provide essential outcomes such as the end of the dependence of EU stakeholders to American and Chinese tools, the valorisation of EU hardware technologies, the benchmark of hardware and architectures before implementation to ensure the success of embedded AI in devices from energy consumption to sparse resources exploitation, the capacity to overcome the heterogeneity of components through a single, open, sovereign platform while ensuring reliability, safety, transparency. The NEUROKIT2E framework will impact the AI landscape as the first one dedicated to embedded AI and will position EU stakeholders in this key market. The NEUROKIT2E consortium relies on 5 EU countries active in the hardware and software activities, France, Netherlands, Austria, Germany and Italy, with a balance between private and public research: 11 private companies (5 large industries: THALES, IFAG, TTTECH AUTO AG, STMICRO, DOLPHIN; 5 SMEs: NANOXPLORE, Almende, Spiki, Deepsensing, HTS) ; 4 RTOs (CEA, IMEC-NL, SAL, FBK).
This European Project, comprised of 25 partners, aims to provide an opensource and soverign platform of tools for Embedded AI with several ambitions:
1. Position EUROPE as a market leader by providing tools capable of meeting real-time, data confidentiality, energy consumption and usability requirements.
2. Provide a platform that will integrate hardware models with neural network models to optimize the network for embedded devices, and provide a single end-to-end development chain.
3. Develop advanced compression and pruning methods to reduce model size while maintaining the performance of the original network.
4. Enable the utilization of synchronous coding (tensors) and event-driven coding (spikes) to be combined into the same network.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101112268 . This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
On December 9-10, 2024, the NEUROKIT2E project held its third General Assembly in Vienna, hosted by TTTech Auto. This key meeting brought together partners to review progress, align on upcoming milestones, and strengthen collaboration on embedded AI development. Discussions covered project deliverables, benchmarking, and dissemination strategies, setting the stage for the next phase of the project.
On June 24, 2024, the NEUROKIT2E project held its second General Assembly in Brussels. This crucial meeting focused on preparing for the first review meeting with the European Commission, scheduled for the following day, ensuring thorough coordination on key objectives and upcoming milestones.
On December 7, the NEUROKIT2E project held its first General Assembly in a virtual setting. This pivotal meeting showcased our first significant results and facilitated a comprehensive alignment on future plans, with a particular focus on refining our project management strategies.
The Kick-off Meeting (KoM) for the NEUROKIT2E project was successfully held on June 15 and 16 in Paris, marking the beginning of an exciting journey in advancing European embedded AI.
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Bridging the Gap Between Models in RL: Test Models vs. Neural Networks — Lorber F., Tappler M. — IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2024 - Workshops (ICSTW 2024) — May 27-31, 2024, Toronto, Canada
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ESAM: Energy-efficient SNN Architecture using 3nm FinFET Multiport SRAM-based CIM with Online Learning — Lucas Huijbregts, Liu Hsiao-Hsuan, Paul Detterer, Said Hamdioui, Amirreza Yousefzadeh, Rajendra Bishnoi — ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) — June 2024, San Francisco, USA
EDGEmergency: A Cloud-Edge Platform to Enable Pervasive Computing for Disaster Management — M. Colosi, M. Garofalo, L. Carnevale, R. Marino, M. Fazio, M. Villari — IEEE/ACM 10th International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies — December 2023, Taormina, Messina, Italy
Dynamic Detection and Mitigation of Read-disturb for Accurate Memristor-based Neural Networks — Diware, S., M.A. Yaldagard, Gebregiorgis, A., Joshi, R. V., Hamdioui, S., Bishnoi, R. — IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS) — April 22-25, 2024, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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TRIP: TRAINABLE REGION-OF-INTEREST PREDICTION FOR HARDWARE-EFFICIENT NEUROMORPHIC PROCESSING ON EVENT-BASED VISION — Cina Arjmand, Yingfu Xu, Kevin Shidqi, Alexandra F. Dobrita, Kanishkan Vadivel, Paul Detterer, Manolis Sifalakis, Amirreza Yousefzadeh, Guangzhi Tang — International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems (ICONS) — July 2024
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POSTER: CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION AND BENCHMARKING OF AI MODELS ON MICROCONTROLLERS: A TINYMLOPS FRAMEWORK FOR REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS — Mattia Antonini, Massimo Vecchio, Fabio Antonelli — EEAI 24 Conference — July 2024
KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION AND FEDERATED LEARNING FOR DATA-DRIVEN MONITORING OF ELECTRICAL VEHICLE LI-BATTERY (ISCC VERSION) — Pierluigi Dell’Acqua, Maria Fazio, Lorenzo Carnevale, Massimo Villari — IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) — July 2024
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A SERVERLESS QUANTIZATION-AS-A-SERVICE MODEL TO RUN COMPRESSION JOBS FOR EDGE INTELLIGENCE — Danny De Novi, Pierluigi Dell’Acqua, Lorenzo Carnevale, Maria Fazio, Massimo Villari — Accepted at IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) — 2025
C3CIM: CONSTANT COLUMN CURRENT MEMRISTOR-BASED COMPUTATION-IN-MEMORY MICRO-ARCHITECTURE — Yashvardhan Biyani, Rajendra Bishnoi, Theofilos Spyrou, Said Hamdioui — In Proceedings of Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) — March 2025
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