Installation

Requirements

Nengo SpiNNaker requires that you have installed appropriate versions of Nengo and the SpiNNaker tools package.

Basic Installation

We’re working towards providing the Nengo SpiNNaker package on PyPi at which point you will be able to:

pip install nengo_spinnaker

For now, like Nengo itself, do a developer installation.

Developer Installation

If you plan to make changes to Nengo SpiNNaker you should clone its git repository and install from it:

git clone https://github.com/ctn-waterloo/nengo_spinnaker
cd nengo_spinnaker
python setup.py develop --user

If you’re in a virtualenv you can omit the --user flag.

Building the SpiNNaker binaries

If you installed the Nengo SpiNNaker package from source you will need to go through a few additional steps prior to running Nengo models. These steps build the executable binaries which are loaded to the SpiNNaker machine.

# Change to the root directory of the SpiNNaker package
# Edit `spinnaker_tools/setup` to point at your ARM cross-compilers
source ./setup
make

# Now move to the root directory of the Nengo SpiNNaker package
cd spinnaker_components
make