Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2015
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2015.7280819
Abstract
Neuromorphic systems that densely integrate CMOS spiking neurons and nano-scale memristor synapses open a new avenue of brain-inspired computing. Existing silicon neurons have molded neural biophysical dynamics but are incompatible with memristor synapses, or used extra training circuitry thus eliminating much of the density advantages gained by using memristors, or were energy inefficient. Here we describe a novel CMOS spiking leaky integrate-and-fire neuron circuit. Building on a reconfigurable architecture with a single opamp, the described neuron accommodates a large number of memristor synapses, and enables online spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP) learning with optimized power consumption. Simulation results of an 180nm CMOS design showed 97% power efficiency metric when realizing STDP learning in 10,000 memristor synapses with a nominal 1MΩ memristance, and only 13µA current consumption when integrating input spikes. Therefore, the described CMOS neuron contributes a generalized building block for large-scale brain-inspired neuromorphic systems.
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Publication Information
Wu, Xinyu; Saxena, Vishal; and Zhu, Kehan. (2015). "A CMOS Spiking Neuron for Dense Memristor-Synapse Connectivity for Brain-Inspired Computing". Proceedings 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 1-6.