**Acknowledgements**

This chapter represents fundamental knowledge for understanding spiking neural networks. Some of the text and images are adopted from the available research literature. Rest of the work represents authors original contributions along with the co-authors of the following research contributions [20, 38, 39, 43, 60, 62]. I am thankful for the support of Dr. Qinru Qiu from Syracuse University and her research group members specifically Amar Shrestha in contributing during the original research.

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*Brain-Inspired Spiking Neural Networks DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.93435*

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