Silicon synaptic adaptation mechanisms for homeostasis and contrast gain control

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1497-1503

  Liu, Shih Chii ^a   Minch, Bradley A ^b  

^a Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Contrast gain control; Floating gate circuits; Homeostasis; Integrate and fire neurons; Long time constants; Neuron circuits

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; GAIN CONTROL; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; VLSI CIRCUITS;

HOMEOSTASIS;

SILICON;

EID: 0036856979     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNN.2002.804224     Document Type: Article

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