Cognitive computing building block: A versatile and efficient digital neuron model for neurosynaptic cores

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Cassidy, Andrew S ^a   Merolla, Paul ^a   Arthur, John V ^a   Esser, Steve K ^a   Jackson, Bryan ^a   Alvarez Icaza, Rodrigo ^a   Datta, Pallab ^a   Sawada, Jun ^a   Wong, Theodore M ^a   Feldman, Vitaly ^a   Amir, Arnon ^a   Rubin, Daniel Ben Dayan ^a   Akopyan, Filipp ^a   McQuinn, Emmett ^a   Risk, William P ^a   Modha, Dharmendra S ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE COMPUTING; COGNITIVE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; COMPLEX COMPUTATION; COMPUTATIONAL FUNCTIONS; FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES; HIERARCHICAL COMPOSITION; INTEGRATE-AND-FIRE NEURONS; SPIKING NEURON MODELS;

NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84893625868     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2013.6707077     Document Type: Conference Paper

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