Towards reverse engineering the brain: Modeling abstractions and simulation frameworks

Proceedings of the 2010 18th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on VLSI and System-on-Chip, VLSI-SoC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-6

  Nageswaran, Jayram Moorkanikara ^a   Richert, Micah ^b   Dutt, Nikil ^a   Krichmar, Jeffrey L ^a,b  

^a Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational neuroscience; GPU; Parallel processing; Spiking neural networks; Synapse; Vision

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE; GPU; PARALLEL PROCESSING; SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS; SYNAPSE;

ABSTRACTING; APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; REVERSE ENGINEERING; VLSI CIRCUITS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 78650944276     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLSISOC.2010.5642630     Document Type: Conference Paper

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