Spiker-LL: An Energy-Efficient FPGA Accelerator Enabling Adaptive Local Learning in Spiking Neural Networks
Deploying adaptive intelligence at the edge remains challenging due to the high computational and energy cost of training neural models. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising alternative, but enabling on-device learning requires hardware-algorithm co-design. This paper presents SPIKER-LL, an FPGA-based SNN accelerator that extends the open-source Spiker+ inference architecture with efficient support for the STSF local learning rule. Through targeted microarchitectural extensions, SPIKER-LL performs inference and online learning with minimal overhead. Across MNIST, F-MNIST, and DIGITS, it achieves up to 93% accuracy, sub-millisecond latency, and less than 0.1 mJ per inference, while remaining DSP-free and highly scalable for edge-FPGA deployments.
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