Lava Neuromorphic Framework

# Lava Neuromorphic Framework **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Type:** Neuromorphic software framework **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Primary source:** [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] ## Definition Lava Neuromorphic Framework is a neuromorphic software framework identified in the source article's Intel's software environment for neuromorphic application development layer. ## Relationships [[wiki/Lava Neuromorphic Framework|Lava Neuromorphic Framework]] is related to [[wiki/Loihi 2|Loihi 2]] as Intel's software environment for neuromorphic application development.  This entry's documented connections are expressed in its definition and related-work routes, with provenance retained in the source-linked material.  ## Source route [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] ## Related Work in the Corpus  - In [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]], **IV.2 — Intel Loihi and Loihi 2: Programmable Digital Spiking Silicon** provides the narrative context for **Lava Neuromorphic Framework**: The decisive software-side advance accompanying Loihi 2 is the Lava open-source framework, which provides Python-level APIs for describing spiking neural networks and compiling them to either CPU or Loihi 2 backends. - In [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]], **IV.7 — Software Simulators and the Algorithm Development Stack** provides the narrative context for **Lava Neuromorphic Framework**: The convergence with conventional deep learning is being pursued through snnTorch, Norse, SpikingJelly, and similar frameworks that integrate spiking neural network primitives into PyTorch and TensorFlow workflows, allowing…