Design of a neuromorphic Hebbian synapse using analog VLSI

International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 221-224

  Rachmuth, Guy ^a,b   Poon, Chi Sang ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological system modeling; Biomembranes; Calcium; Circuits; CMOS technology; Hippocampus; Neuromorphics; Neurons; Semiconductor device modeling; Very large scale integration

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; BRAIN; CALCIUM; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; VLSI CIRCUITS;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM MODELING; BIOMEMBRANES; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEUROMORPHICS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN;

EID: 11144264981     PISSN: 19483546     EISSN: 19483554     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CNE.2003.1196798     Document Type: Conference Paper

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