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Memristor Circuits for Simulating Neuron Spiking and Burst Phenomena

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العنوان: Memristor Circuits for Simulating Neuron Spiking and Burst Phenomena
المؤلفون: Giacomo Innocenti, Mauro Di Marco, Alberto Tesi, Mauro Forti
المصدر: Frontiers in Neuroscience, Vol 15 (2021)
بيانات النشر: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: LCC:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
مصطلحات موضوعية: neuron, spiking, bursting, memristor, pulse-programmed circuit, harmonic balance, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571
الوصف: Since the introduction of memristors, it has been widely recognized that they can be successfully employed as synapses in neuromorphic circuits. This paper focuses on showing that memristor circuits can be also used for mimicking some features of the dynamics exhibited by neurons in response to an external stimulus. The proposed approach relies on exploiting multistability of memristor circuits, i.e., the coexistence of infinitely many attractors, and employing a suitable pulse-programmed input for switching among the different attractors. Specifically, it is first shown that a circuit composed of a resistor, an inductor, a capacitor and an ideal charge-controlled memristor displays infinitely many stable equilibrium points and limit cycles, each one pertaining to a planar invariant manifold. Moreover, each limit cycle is approximated via a first-order periodic approximation analytically obtained via the Describing Function (DF) method, a well-known technique in the Harmonic Balance (HB) context. Then, it is shown that the memristor charge is capable to mimic some simplified models of the neuron response when an external independent pulse-programmed current source is introduced in the circuit. The memristor charge behavior is generated via the concatenation of convergent and oscillatory behaviors which are obtained by switching between equilibrium points and limit cycles via a properly designed pulse timing of the current source. The design procedure takes also into account some relationships between the pulse features and the circuit parameters which are derived exploiting the analytic approximation of the limit cycles obtained via the DF method.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1662-453X
Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.681035/full; https://doaj.org/toc/1662-453X
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.681035
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/2b950b8b67fb466f8f0943a8175ebd1c
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.2b950b8b67fb466f8f0943a8175ebd1c
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:1662453X
DOI:10.3389/fnins.2021.681035