Neuromorphic silicon neuron circuits

G Indiveri, B Linares-Barranco, TJ Hamilton… - Frontiers in …, 2011‏ - frontiersin.org
Hardware implementations of spiking neurons can be extremely useful for a large variety of
applications, ranging from high-speed modeling of large-scale neural systems to real-time …

High-value tunable pseudo-resistors design

E Guglielmi, F Toso, F Zanetto… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pseudo-resistor circuits are used to mimic large value resistors and base their success on
the reduction of occupied areas with respect to physical devices of equal value. This article …

A reconfigurable on-line learning spiking neuromorphic processor comprising 256 neurons and 128K synapses

N Qiao, H Mostafa, F Corradi, M Osswald… - Frontiers in …, 2015‏ - frontiersin.org
Implementing compact, low-power artificial neural processing systems with real-time on-line
learning abilities is still an open challenge. In this paper we present a full-custom mixed …

A 3.6 s Latency Asynchronous Frame-Free Event-Driven Dynamic-Vision-Sensor

JA Leñero-Bardallo… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2011‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a 128× 128 dynamic vision sensor. Each pixel detects temporal
changes in the local illumination. A minimum illumination temporal contrast of 10% can be …

A low-noise chopper amplifier designed for multi-channel neural signal acquisition

D Luo, M Zhang, Z Wang - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposed the design of a low-noise, low total harmonic distortion (THD) chopper
amplifier for neural signal acquisition. A dc servo loop (DSL) based on active Gm-C …

Spike-based synaptic plasticity in silicon: design, implementation, application, and challenges

MR Azghadi, N Iannella, SF Al-Sarawi… - Proceedings of the …, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability to carry out signal processing, classification, recognition, and computation in
artificial spiking neural networks (SNNs) is mediated by their synapses. In particular, through …

A 2-nW 1.1-V self-biased current reference in CMOS technology

EM Camacho-Galeano… - … on Circuits and …, 2005‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents the design of an ultra-low-power self-biased 400-pA current source. We
propose the use of a very simple topology along with a design methodology based on the …

Current sensing front-ends: A review and design guidance

D Ying, DA Hall - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sensors link the physical and electronic worlds, finding uses in environmental, automotive,
industrial, communication, and medical applications, among many more. Here, current …

A 0.5 V 55 64 2 Channel Binaural Silicon Cochlea for Event-Driven Stereo-Audio Sensing

M Yang, CH Chien, T Delbruck… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a channel stereo-audio sensing front end with parallel asynchronous
event output inspired by the biological cochlea. Each binaural channel performs feature …

A monolithic current-mode buck converter with advanced control and protection circuits

FF Ma, WZ Chen, JC Wu - IEEE Transactions on power …, 2007‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A monolithic current-mode pulse width modulation (PWM) step-down dc-dc converter with
96.7% peak efficiency and advanced control and protection circuits is presented in this …