A Silicon Axon
Abstract
We present a silicon model of an axon which shows promise as a building block for pulse-based neural computations involving cor(cid:173) relations of pulses across both space and time. The circuit shares a number of features with its biological counterpart including an excitation threshold, a brief refractory period after pulse comple(cid:173) tion, pulse amplitude restoration, and pulse width restoration. We provide a simple explanation of circuit operation and present data from a chip fabricated in a standard 2Jlm CMOS process through the MOS Implementation Service (MOSIS). We emphasize the ne(cid:173) cessity of the restoration of the width of the pulse in time for stable propagation in axons.
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Minch et al. "A Silicon Axon." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1994.Markdown
[Minch et al. "A Silicon Axon." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1994.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1994/minch1994neurips-silicon/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{minch1994neurips-silicon,
title = {{A Silicon Axon}},
author = {Minch, Bradley A. and Hasler, Paul E. and Diorio, Chris and Mead, Carver},
booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
year = {1994},
pages = {739-746},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1994/minch1994neurips-silicon/}
}