A novel digital implementation of neuron–astrocyte interactions

Journal of Computational Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 227-239

  Nazari, Soheila ^a   Faez, Karim ^a   Amiri, Mahmood ^b   Karami, Ehsan ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b KERMANSHAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Digital implementation; FPGA; Neuron astrocyte interactions

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); MATLAB; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

DIGITAL IMPLEMENTATION; FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS; INFORMATION PROCESSING CAPABILITY; MODELSIM SIMULATIONS; NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING; PIECEWISE LINEAR APPROXIMATIONS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSMISSION FREQUENCIES;

NEURONS;

EID: 84912557359     PISSN: 15698025     EISSN: 15728137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10825-014-0643-3     Document Type: Article

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