Analog VLSI circuit implementation of an adaptive neuromorphic olfaction chip

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 60-73

  Koickal, Thomas Jacob ^a   Hamilton, Alister ^a   Tan, Su Lim ^b   Covington, James A ^b   Gardner, Julian W ^b   Pearce, Tim C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analog VLSI; Electronic nose; Machine olfaction; Neuromorphic circuits; On chip learning; Spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP)

Indexed keywords

ANALOG CIRCUITS; CARBON BLACK; CHEMICAL SENSORS; SENSOR ARRAYS;

ANALOG VLSI; ELECTRONIC NOSE; ODOR DETECTION; SPIKE-TIMING-DEPENDENT PLASTICITY;

VLSI CIRCUITS;

EID: 33847642036     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2006.888677     Document Type: Article

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