Design of a modular and mixed neuromimetic ASIC

Author

Tomas, J. ; Bornat, Y. ; Saïghi, S. ; Lévi, T. ; Renaud, S.

Author_Institution

Univ. Bordeaux 1, Talence

fYear

2006

fDate

10-13 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

946

Lastpage

949

Abstract

This paper presents a new specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that emulates neurons electrical activity using a biophysical model (neuromimetic ASIC). Such ASICs form the computation core of a complete simulation system dedicated to the investigation of the dynamics of biomimetic neural networks. The circuits were designed using a modular approach. Simulations were realized by mixing the behavioral and the transistor-level description of modules. We present in this paper the ASICs specifications and architecture, together with simulation results.

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; integrated circuit design; iterative methods; neural chips; application specific integrated circuits; biomimetic neural networks; computation core; mixed neuromimetic ASIC; modular ASIC; neurons electrical activity; Application specific integrated circuits; Artificial neural networks; Biological neural networks; Biological system modeling; Biology computing; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Hardware; Neurons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2006. ICECS '06. 13th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nice

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0395-2

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0395-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2006.379946

Filename

4263524