A neuromimetic integrated circuit for interactive real-time simulation

Abstract

This paper presents a new analog neuromimetic Integrated Circuit. This IC includes tunable analog computation cores, which are based on Hodgkin-Huxley formalism, calcium channel and calcium-dependent potassium channel. The analog computation cores compute in real-time biologically realistic models of neurons and they are tuned by built-in digital functions. Several topologies are possible to reproduce different neural activity like fast spiking or regular spiking. Those activities are presented to illustrate the diversity of models simulated by this IC. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.