Summary
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications
2008
Session Number:C2L-E
Session:
Number:C2L-E5
A simple aVLSI burst silicon neuron circuit
Takashi Kohno, Kazuyuki Aihara,
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Publication Date:2008/9/7
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Silicon neuron, electrical circuit that reproduces neuronal phenomena, has being designed by copying some biological neuron models themselves. Because of incompatibility between protein-based and silicon-based systems, its circuitry tends to be very complex when we implement conductance-based neuron model. Of course circuitry can be quite simple when we implement simple model such as leaky integrate-and-fire model, but the system dynamics is limited. In our previous works, we proposed another design method to solve this problem, which is to copy mathematical structures in theoretical models. We introduce an aVLSI silicon neuron circuit with relatively simple circuitry that has ability to generate burst firing pattern.