FPGA based pipelined architecture for action potential simulation in biological neural systems

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Pourhaj, Peyman ^a   Teng, Daniel H Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biological neuron; FPGA; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIALS; BIOLOGICAL NEURAL NETWORKS; BIOLOGICAL NEURAL SYSTEMS; BIOLOGICAL NEURON; COMPUTATION SPEED; FLOATING-POINT ADDER; FPGA; HARDWARE-BASED APPROACH; HIGH SPEED; IEEE-754; IP CORE; MEMORY SIZE; MULTIPLE PROCESSORS; PIPELINED ARCHITECTURE; PROCESSING POWER; SIMULATION; SIMULATION MODEL;

ADDERS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEED;

PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 78049329532     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCECE.2010.5575160     Document Type: Conference Paper

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