Real-time biomimetic central pattern generators in an FPGA for hybrid experiments

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 7 NOV, 2013, Pages

  Ambroise, Matthieu ^a   Levi, Timothée ^a   Joucla, Sébastien ^a   Yvert, Blaise ^a   Saïghi, Sylvain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Biomimetic; Central pattern generator; Digital hardware; FPGA; Neuron model; Spiking neural networks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOMIMETICS; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; DEPRESSION; EX VIVO STUDY; HEART BEAT; HYBRID COMPUTER; HYBRIDIZATION; LEECH; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSE;

EID: 84888797852     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00215     Document Type: Article

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