Neuromorphic modeling abstractions and simulation of large-scale cortical networks

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Digest of Technical Papers, ICCAD

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 334-338

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Irvine   (United States)

^c Brain Corporation   (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; BRAIN MODELS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; VISION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84855789315     PISSN: 10923152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCAD.2011.6105350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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