VLSI implementation of a 2.8 Gevent/s packet-based AER interface with routing and event sorting functionality

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2011, Pages

  Scholze, Stefan ^a   Schiefer, Stefan ^a   Partzsch, Johannes ^a   Hartmann, Stephan ^a   Mayr, Christian Georg ^a   Höppner, Sebastian ^a   Eisenreich, Holger ^a   Henker, Stephan ^a   Vogginger, Bernhard ^a   Schüffny, Rene ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Configurable pulse delays; Configuration over AER; Packet based AER; Serial AER inVLSI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROTRANSMISSION;

EID: 84862237704     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2011.00117     Document Type: Article

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