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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2023

The silence of the neurons: an application to enhance performance and energy efficiency.

Moslem Heidarpur, Arash Ahmadi, Majid Ahmadi

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Moslem HeidarpurDepartment of Computer and Electrical Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada.
Arash AhmadiDepartment of Electronics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Majid AhmadiDepartment of Computer and Electrical Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction: Simulation of biological neural networks is a computationally intensive task due to the number of neurons, various communication pathways, and non-linear terms in the differential equations of the neuron. Method: This study proposes an original modification to optimize performance and power consumption in systems, simulating or implementing spiking neural networks. First, the proposed modified models were simulated for validation. Furthermore, digital hardware was designed, and both the original and proposed models were implemented on a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Results and discussion: Moreover, the impact of the proposed modification on performance metrics was studied. The implementation results confirmed that the proposed models are considerably faster and require less energy to generate a spike compared with unmodified neurons.

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biological neuronCORDICdigital implementationFPGAIzhikevich neuronneuromorphicspiking neural network

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PMID38481829
PMCPMC10933060

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