Phase Coupling and Control of Oxide-Based Oscillators for Neuromorphic Computing

IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages 58-66

  Sharma, Abhishek A ^a   Bain, James A ^a   Weldon, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled Oscillators; Neuromorphic Computing; Oscillatory Neural Networks; Oxide Oscillators; pairwise coupled; phase coupling; Relaxation Oscillators; TaOx; TiOx

Indexed keywords

BALLAST (RAILROAD TRACK); FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; MOSFET DEVICES; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; RELAXATION OSCILLATORS; STATIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

COUPLED OSCILLATORS; NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING; OSCILLATORY NEURAL NETWORKS; PAIRWISE-COUPLED; PHASE COUPLING; TAOX; TIOX;

VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

COMPUTATION; JOINING; OSCILLATORS;

EID: 85053169305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23299231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JXCDC.2015.2448417     Document Type: Article

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