Building neuromorphic circuits with memristive devices

IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 56-73

  Chang, Ting ^a   Yang, Yuchao ^a   Lu, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE; DEVICE STRUCTURES; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH; HYBRID INTEGRATION; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; NEUROMORPHIC CIRCUITS; SYSTEM FUNCTIONALITY;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DIGITAL COMPUTERS; HYBRID MATERIALS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

EID: 84878333703     PISSN: 1531636X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCAS.2013.2256260     Document Type: Review

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