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year 2010
author(s) Daniel Brüderle, Johannes Bill, Bernhard Kaplan, Jens Kremkow, Karlheinz Meier, Eric Müller and Johannes Schemmel
title Simulator-Like Exploration of Cortical Network Architectures with a Mixed-Signal VLSI System
KIP-Nummer HD-KIP 10-26
KIP-Gruppe(n) F9
document type Paper
source Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (Copyright: IEEE)
Abstract (en)

In this paper we describe our approach towards highly configurable neuromorphic hardware systems that serve as useful and flexible tools in modeling neuroscience. We utilize a mixed-signal VLSI model that implements a massively accelerated network of spiking neurons, and we describe a novel methodological framework that allows to exploit both the speed and the programmability of this device for the systematic and simulator-like exploration of cortical network architectures. We present a variety of experimental results that illustrate the functionality of our modeling platform, and we verify all hardware measurements with reference software simulations. Especially on the network level these comparison studies are unique in terms of the quantitative correspondence between the data. The presented hardware experiments include high-conductance states in hardware neurons and the application of synaptic depression and facilitation for self-adjusting network architectures.

bibtex
@article{bruederle10simulator,
  author   = {Br\"uderle, Daniel and Bill, Johannes and Kaplan, Bernhard and Kremkow, Jens and Meier, Karlheinz and M\"uller, Eric and Schemmel, Johannes},
  title    = {Simulator-Like Exploration of Cortical Network Architectures with a Mixed-Signal VLSI System},
  journal  = {Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits	and Systems (ISCAS"10)},
  volume   = {},
  year     = {2010},
  pages    = {2784--2787}
}
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