A digital implementation of neuron-astrocyte interaction for neuromorphic applications

Neural Networks

Volumn 66, Issue , 2015, Pages 79-90

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

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b KERMANSHAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

FPGA; Linear approximation; Neuromorphic; Neuron astrocyte interactions

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); HARDWARE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MATLAB;

BI-DIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATION; DIGITAL IMPLEMENTATION; FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS; INFORMATION PROCESSING CAPABILITY; LINEAR APPROXIMATIONS; NEUROMORPHIC; NEUROMORPHIC CIRCUITS; NEURONAL ACTIVITIES;

NEURONS;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL INTERACTION; COMPUTER; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; ELECTRONICS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ASTROCYTES; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84925432585     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: 18792782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2015.01.005     Document Type: Article

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