Point-to-point connectivity between neuromorphic chips using address events

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 416-434

  Boahen, Kwabena A ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CROSSTALK; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; PACKET NETWORKS; SIGNAL ENCODING; THROUGHPUT; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; VLSI CIRCUITS;

ADDRESS EVENTS BIT PACKETS; ASYNCHRONOUS LOGIC SYNTHESIS; INTERCHIP COMMUNICATION; NEUROMORPHIC CHIPS; SPIKING NEURONS;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EID: 0033740171     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/82.842110     Document Type: Article

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