# SynSense (formerly aiCTX)

> Neuromorphic computing company founded in Zurich in 2017 out of the Institute of
> Neuroinformatics (University of Zurich / ETH Zurich), renamed from aiCTX AG to SynSense AG in
> May 2020. Designs ultra-low-power mixed-signal neuromorphic processors and smart sensors for
> always-on, sub-milliwatt edge inference.

This file is generated by API Evangelist from a third-party profile of SynSense's public surface.
SynSense does not publish an llms.txt of its own; /llms.txt returns 404 on www.synsense.ai,
rockpool.ai and sinabs.ai (the apex synsense.ai answers 200 with the site's HTML shell, which is a
soft 404, not a document).

## What is and is not callable

- The **silicon is not network-callable.** Speck, Xylo, DYNAP-CNN, DVS, Rigi and AEVEON are
  programmed locally through Python libraries over USB/FPGA development kits. There is no cloud
  API, no API key programme, and no developer credentials of any kind.
- The **one HTTP API** SynSense serves publicly is the WordPress REST content API behind its
  corporate site, at https://www.synsense.ai/wp-json. It is anonymous, read-only and CORS-open.

## HTTP API — SynSense Website Content API

- Base URL: https://www.synsense.ai/wp-json
- Auth: none for reads. No key, token or account.
- Format: application/json. Errors are a WordPress envelope ({code, message, data.status}), not RFC 9457.
- Pagination: `page` + `per_page` (max 100); totals in the `X-WP-Total` / `X-WP-TotalPages`
  headers and `rel="next"` in a `Link` header. The body is a bare array — read the headers.
- Field trimming: `?_fields=id,slug,title,link`. Relation inflation: `?_embed`.
- Introspection: HTTP OPTIONS on any collection returns that resource's JSON Schema. GET /wp-json/
  returns the full route index.
- Rate limits: none published, none signalled.

### Collections that carry real SynSense business data

- /wp/v2/products_list — product entries (Rigi, AEVEON, DVS, Speck, Xylo, Rockpool, Sinabs, SAMNA)
- /wp/v2/careers_list — open roles, classified by office/country/city
- /wp/v2/our_partners — partner organisations
- /wp/v2/awards — awards and recognition
- /wp/v2/office — office locations (Zurich, Nanjing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Beijing, Ningbo)
- /wp/v2/posts — news
- /wp/v2/media — attachments, including product datasheets and dev-kit manuals
- /wp/v2/search — site-wide search
- /wp/v2/types, /wp/v2/taxonomies, /wp/v2/statuses — discovery

Note: the substantive copy for each entity lives in a per-post-type `acf` object whose shape the
API does not declare.

## Developer surface — Python libraries (the real one)

- Samna — device interface and runtime for every SynSense device; Python API over a C++ core.
  pip install samna · https://synsense-sys-int.gitlab.io/samna/ · 0.48.6 (2026-06-22)
- Rockpool — build, train, simulate and deploy spiking neural networks; Torch/JAX/Brian2/Numba
  backends. pip install rockpool · https://rockpool.ai · 3.1.0 (2026-07-02)
- Sinabs — PyTorch spiking CNNs, and porting CNNs to DYNAP-CNN / Speck.
  pip install sinabs · https://sinabs.ai · 3.1.3 (2026-02-04)
- sinabs-exodus — EXODUS fast BPTT training plugin. 2.0.0 (2025-04-04)
- Tonic — neuromorphic datasets and transforms. Recommended by SynSense but published by the
  neuromorphs org, not first-party. https://tonic.readthedocs.io

Deprecated or stale: sinabs-dynapcnn (deprecated, merged into sinabs, 2024-03-14);
xylosim (last release 2022-03-23).

## Documentation

- Developer community: https://www.synsense.ai/developercommunity/
- Documentation index: https://www.synsense.ai/developercommunity/documentation/
- Firmware and datasheet downloads: https://www.synsense.ai/developer/
- Software overview: https://www.synsense.ai/software/
- GitHub org: https://github.com/synsense
- Contact: https://www.synsense.ai/contact-2/ · support@synsense.ai

## What SynSense does not publish

No OpenAPI, no AsyncAPI, no GraphQL, no Postman collection, no webhooks, no MCP server, no A2A
agent card, no status page, no pricing page, no changelog for the HTTP API, no security.txt, no
OAuth or OpenID discovery documents, no trust centre and no published certifications. Each of
those was probed on 2026-09-14 and recorded in this profile rather than assumed.

## Profile artifacts (API Evangelist, third party)

- OpenAPI (derived from the provider's route index + OPTIONS schemas): openapi/aictx-website-content-api-openapi.json
- Conventions, errors, authentication, data model, conformance, rate limits, lifecycle, packages,
  changelog, well-known probe: see the matching directories in this repository.