Spiking and Bursting Firing Patterns of a Compact VLSI Cortical Neuron Circuit

J.H.B. Wijekoon; Piotr Dudek

doi:10.1109/IJCNN.2007.4371151

Spiking and Bursting Firing Patterns of a Compact VLSI Cortical Neuron Circuit

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The paper presents a silicon neuron circuit that mimics the behaviour of known classes of biological neurons. The circuit has been designed in a 0.35 mum CMOS technology. The firing patterns of basic cell classes: regular spiking (RS), fast spiking (FS), chattering (CH) and intrinsic bursting (IB) are obtained with a simple adjustment of two biasing voltages. The simulations reveal the potential of the circuit to provide a wide variety of cell behaviours with required accommodation and firing frequency of a given cell type. The neuron consumes only 14 MOSFETs enabling the integration of many neurons in a small silicon area. Hence, the circuit provides a foundation for designing massively parallel analogue neuromorphic networks that closely resemble the circuits of the cortex.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks - Conference Proceedings\|IEEE Int. Conf. Neural. Netw. Conf. Proc.
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1332-1337
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	142441380X, 9781424413805
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2007.4371151
Publication status	Published - 12 Aug 2007
Event	2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2007 - Orlando, FL Duration: 1 Jul 2007 → …

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Conference	2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2007
City	Orlando, FL
Period	1/07/07 → …

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Wijekoon, JHB & Dudek, P 2007, Spiking and Bursting Firing Patterns of a Compact VLSI Cortical Neuron Circuit. in IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks - Conference Proceedings|IEEE Int. Conf. Neural. Netw. Conf. Proc.. IEEE, pp. 1332-1337, 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2007, Orlando, FL, 1/07/07. https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2007.4371151

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