Neuromorphic circuit tutorial
Group Members:
- Craig Schlottmann, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Chang-Woo Shin, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology SAIT
- David Mascarenas, Los Alamos National Labs
- Daniel Lofaro, Drexel University
- Paco Gomez-Rodriguez, University of Seville
- Guillaume Garreau, Holistic Electronics Research Lab / UCY
- Ivo Georgiev, Metropolitan State College of Denver
- Jonathan Dyhr, University of Arizona
- Jeff Sprenger, University of Vermont
- Kazuki Nakada, Kyushu University
- Mohsen Mollazadeh, Johns Hopkins University
- Michael Rapson, University of Cape Town
- Piotr Dudek, The University of Manchester
- Ralph Etienne-Cummings, JHU/ECE Department
- Raphael Juston, Biorobotics/Institute of Movement Sciences
- Ravi Shekhar, University of Florida
- Shih-Chii Liu, Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETHZ
- Spencer Kellis, University of Utah
- Trushal Chokshi, University of Michigan
- Timmer Horiuchi, University of Maryland
- Tobi Delbruck, Instiute of Neuroinformatics
- Viviane Ghaderi, USC
Leaders: 'Paul Hasler', Shih-Chii Liu, Tara Julia Hamilton
Learn about basic neuromorphic silicon circuits by blackboard discussions, circuit simulations, and implementing them in field programmable analog arrays (FPAAs).
This tutorial will be interleaved with lectures and with hands on lab sessions. The lectures will cover basic silicon device physics, MOSFETs operated in the subthreshold (or weak inversion) domain, basic circuits such as transconductance amplifiers, and silicon neuron and synapse circuits. Everyone will also have an opportunity to program and implement novel circuits or ideas on the Field Programmable Analog Array (FPAA).
Never drawn a transistor or simulated one with SPICE? This is your chance to try out circuit simulations and layout with Tanner Chip Design Tools. Tanner is kindly supplying us a demo license for Telluride and can you how to draw schematics, simulate circuits using SPICE, and draw transistor layouts. See wiki:2010/nm10/tanner for more details.
Wish List of Participants
1. Transistor level understanding of basic neuromorphic circuit primitives Shih-Chii Liu Jeff Sprenger Ivo Georgiev Ravi Shekhar
2. Discussion of why neuromorphic circuits are useful and their applications Jeff Sprenger Craig Schlottmann Ivo Georgiev Paco Gomez-Rodriguez
3. Platforms for implementing neuromorphic circuits (Digital e.g. FPGA
platform, Analog e.g. custom VLSI design) Jeff Sprenger Ivo Georgiev
4. Signal processing issues (e.g. when to go analog and when to go digital ) Craig Schlottmann Ivo Georgiev Paco Gomez-Rodriguez
5. Tanner EDA Ivo Georgiev
6. State of the art of the field Ivo Georgiev Paco Gomez-Rodriguez
Equipment
- FPAA systems from Georgia Tech (Paul's group)
- Demo licenses for Tanner tools (Shih-Chii & Tobi arranged)
