Reconfigurable acceleration of neural models with gap junctions

Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, FPT'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 439-442

  Wildie, Mark ^a   Luk, Wayne ^a   Schultz, Simon R ^a   Leong, Philip H W ^b   Fidjeland, Andreas K ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL NETWORKS; BRAIN NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSIS; FPGA-BASED ARCHITECTURES; GAP JUNCTIONS; HIGH-LEVEL FUNCTIONS; NEURAL MODELS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; REAL TIME SIMULATIONS; SIMULATION COST; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION; SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS; XEON PROCESSORS;

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST REDUCTION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); TRANSIENTS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 77949343057     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FPT.2009.5377639     Document Type: Conference Paper

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