BE 526 – Neuromorphing: Building Brains in Silicon
Kwabena Boahen, Course Instructor
Spring 2004
Towne 315, Tue and Thur – 3:00-4:20pm
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Topics |
Reading & Assignments |
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Tue |
1/11 |
Overview of VLSI and Neural Systems |
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Thur |
1/13 |
Ion-Channel: Electrodiffusion in Liquids |
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Ana1: Electrodiffusion |
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Tue |
1/18 |
PN-Junction: Electrodiffusion in Solids |
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Thur |
1/20 |
MOS Transistor: Controlling Electrodiffusion |
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Lab1: PN Junction |
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3 |
Tue |
1/25 |
MOS Transistor: Channel-Current Equation |
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Thur |
1/27 |
Voltage-Gated Channel: Rate Kinetics |
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Lab2: MOS Transistor |
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4 |
Tue |
2/1 |
Voltage-Gated Channel: Diode-Capacitor Dynamics |
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Thur |
2/3 |
Ligand-Gated Channel: Log-Domain Filter |
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Ana2: Rate Kinetics |
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5 |
Tue |
2/8 |
Dendritic Integration: Excitation and Inhibition |
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Thur |
2/10 |
Spike Generation: Simplifying Hodgkin-Huxley |
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Lab3: Synapse |
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6 |
Tue |
2/15 |
Spike Generation: Frequency–Current Relationship |
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Thur |
2/17 |
Potassium Channels: Spike-Rate Adaptation |
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Lab4: Axon-Hillock |
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7 |
Tue |
2/22 |
Potassium Channels: Slew-Rate Adaptation |
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Thur |
2/24 |
The Cochlea |
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Lab5: Spike Timing |
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8 |
Tue |
3/1 |
Cochlea: Basilar Membrane Model |
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Thur |
3/3 |
Cochlea: Fluid Model |
Watts: PhD Thesis,80-113,’93 |
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9 |
Tue |
3/8 |
Spring Break |
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Thur |
3/10 |
Spring Break |
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10 |
Tue |
3/15 |
Cochlea: Traveling Waves |
Watts: PhD Thesis,31-45,’93 |
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Thur |
3/17 |
Cochlea: Amplification and Gain Control |
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Sim1: Cochlea |
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11 |
Tue |
3/22 |
The Retina |
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Thur |
3/24 |
Cell-Syncytium Model |
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Lab6: Diffusers |
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12 |
Tue |
3/29 |
Morphing the Outer Retina |
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Thur |
3/31 |
Spatiotemporal Filtering and Luminance Adaptation |
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Sim2: Outer Retina |
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13 |
Tue |
4/5 |
Spiking Neuron Arrays: Address-Events |
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Thur |
4/7 |
Variability in Neuron Arrays |
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Lab7: Neuron Array |
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14 |
Tue |
4/12 |
Synchrony in Inhibitory Recurrent Networks |
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Thur |
4/14 |
Multistability in Excitatory Recurrent Networks |
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Lab8: Synchrony |
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15 |
Tue |
4/19 |
Anatomical Plasticity via Address Translation |
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Thur |
4/21 |
Learning feed-forward mappings |
Lab9: Neurotropin |
Mead: Analog VLSI and Neural Systems, Carver Mead, Addison-Wesley, 1989
Nicholls: From Neuron to Brain, Kuffler, Nicholls et al., Sinauer, 4th Edition, 2001
Weiss I,II: Cellular Biophysics I & II, Thomas Weiss, MIT Press, 1996
Liu: Analog VLSI: Circuits and Principles, Liu, Kramer, et al., MIT Press 2002
Remaining citations are published papers or PhD dissertations (as stated).
Revised 1/10/05