Authors:
Manuel Rivas-Perez
;
A. Linares-Barranco
;
A. Jimenez-Fernandez
;
A. Civit
and
G. Jimenez
Affiliation:
University of Seville, Spain
Keyword(s):
Spiking neurons, Address-event-representation, Usb-aer, Vhdl, Fpga, Image filtering, Neuro-inspired, Cellular automata.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Image and Video Processing, Compression and Segmentation
;
Multimedia
;
Multimedia Signal Processing
;
Neural Networks, Spiking Systems, Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Logic
;
Telecommunications
Abstract:
Spike-based systems are neuro-inspired circuits implementations traditionally used for sensory systems or sensor signal processing. Address-Event-Representation (AER) is a neuromorphic communication protocol for transferring asynchronous events between VLSI spike-based chips. These neuro-inspired implementations allow developing complex, multilayer, multichip neuromorphic systems and have been used to design sensor chips, such as retinas and cochlea, processing chips, e.g. filters, and learning chips. Furthermore, Cellular Automata (CA) is a bio-inspired processing model for problem solving. This approach divides the processing synchronous cells which change their states at the same time in order to get the solution. This paper presents a software simulator able to gather several spike-based elements into the same workspace in order to test a CA architecture based on AER before a hardware implementation. Furthermore this simulator produces VHDL for testing the AER-CA into the FPGA of
the USB-AER AER-tool.
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