AER EAR: A matched silicon cochlea pair with address event representation interface

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 48-59

  Chan, Vincent ^a   Liu, Shih Chii ^b   van Schaik, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Analog integrated circuits; Neuromorphic engineering; Silicon cochlea; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOW PASS FILTERS; NEURONS; SILICON;

ADDRESS EVENT REPRESENTATION; ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SILICON COCHLEA; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

ANALOG CIRCUITS;

EID: 33847616026     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2006.887979     Document Type: Article

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