Power-efficient simulation of detailed cortical microcircuits on SpiNNaker

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 110-118

  Sharp, Thomas ^a   Galluppi, Francesco ^a   Rast, Alexander ^a   Furber, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortex; Energy; Microcircuit; Power; Real time; Simulation; Spiking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CAT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPUTER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MAMMAL; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MICROPROCESSOR; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERS; COMPUTERS, ANALOG; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS;

EID: 84865768732     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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