The architecture of TrueNorth inspired by the human brain (a) and the hypercolumn in the cortex of the brain (b). The neuro-synaptic core (c) is the building block of the TrueNorth architecture is a \(240\times390\ \mu m\) silicon board (d) which is tiled in a 2-D array to form the TrueNorth chip (e), occupying \(4.3\ cm^2\) in a CMOS (f). The densely-connected result (g) is an artificial cortical structure capable of handling computer vision tasks in real time. Adapted from \cite{Akopyan_2015}