# Whetstone **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Type:** Software conversion tool **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Primary source:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] ## Definition Whetstone is Sandia's tool for converting conventional neural networks for spiking-neural-network execution. ## Relationships [[wiki/Whetstone|Whetstone]] is related to [[wiki/Sandia National Laboratories|Sandia National Laboratories]], [[wiki/Spiking Neural Network|spiking neural networks]], and [[wiki/Loihi|Loihi]] through model conversion. <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> This entry's documented connections are expressed in its definition and related-work routes, with provenance retained in the source-linked material. <!-- END HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> ## Source route [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] ## Related Work in the Corpus <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> - In [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]], **Neuromorphic Hardware: Collapsing the Cloud Dependency Objection** provides the narrative context for **Whetstone**: The Loihi 2 architecture, led by Mike Davies (Director, Neuromorphic Computing Lab, Intel Labs), applies brain-inspired principles: asynchronous event-based spiking neural networks, integrated memory and computing, and… <!-- END HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 -->