Silicon synapses self-correct for both mismatch and design inhomogeneities

Electronics Letters

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 360-361

  Bamford, S A ^a,b   Murray, A F ^a   Willshaw, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL LEARNING; ELECTRONIC DESIGN; FIRING RATES; HOMEOSTATIC MECHANISM; INHOMOGENEITIES; NEUROMORPHIC; REDUCE VARIATION; SPIKE-TIMING-DEPENDENT PLASTICITY;

TECHNOLOGY;

ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING;

EID: 84861592509     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el.2012.0257     Document Type: Article

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