Multiplier-less digital implementation of neuron-astrocyte signalling on FPGA

Neurocomputing

Volumn 164, Issue , 2015, Pages 281-292

  Nazari, Soheila ^a   Amiri, Masoud ^b   Faez, Karim ^a   Amiri, Mahmood ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b KERMANSHAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Digital implementation; FPGA; Neuromorphic circuit; Neuron astrocyte interactions

Indexed keywords

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; LOGIC SYNTHESIS; MATLAB; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

BIDIRECTIONAL SIGNALING; COMPUTATIONAL UNITS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DIGITAL IMPLEMENTATION; FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS; HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE; NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROMORPHIC CIRCUITS;

NEURONS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CALCULATION; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE;

EID: 84935528800     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: 18728286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2015.02.041     Document Type: Article

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