A Neuromorphic VLSI System for Modeling the Neural Control of Axial Locomotion
Abstract
We have developed and tested an analog/digital VLSI system that mod(cid:173) els the coordination of biological segmental oscillators underlying axial locomotion in animals such as leeches and lampreys. In its current form the system consists of a chain of twelve pattern generating circuits that are capable of arbitrary contralateral inhibitory synaptic coupling. Each pattern generating circuit is implemented with two independent silicon Morris-Lecar neurons with a total of 32 programmable (floating-gate based) inhibitory synapses, and an asynchronous address-event inter(cid:173) connection element that provides synaptic connectivity and implements axonal delay. We describe and analyze the data from a set of experi(cid:173) ments exploring the system behavior in terms of synaptic coupling.
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Patel et al. "A Neuromorphic VLSI System for Modeling the Neural Control of Axial Locomotion." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1999.Markdown
[Patel et al. "A Neuromorphic VLSI System for Modeling the Neural Control of Axial Locomotion." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1999.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1999/patel1999neurips-neuromorphic/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{patel1999neurips-neuromorphic,
title = {{A Neuromorphic VLSI System for Modeling the Neural Control of Axial Locomotion}},
author = {Patel, Girish N. and Brown, Edgar A. and DeWeerth, Stephen P.},
booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
year = {1999},
pages = {724-730},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1999/patel1999neurips-neuromorphic/}
}