A CMOS monolithic implementation of a nonlinear interconnection module for a corticonic network

Author

Yuan, Jie ; Farhat, Nabil ; Van der Spiegel, Jan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Syst. Eng., Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia, PA

fYear

2006

fDate

21-24 May 2006

Abstract

A nonlinear interconnection module for a corticonic network is designed and fabricated in a 0.6 mum CMOS process. The module uses NMOS transistors in weak-inversion region for nonlinearity. A calibration scheme is developed to compensate for the process and temperature variation of the circuit. The designed module has an area of 0.35mm². It consumes 200mW of power, with 5V power supply. Simulation results show that the circuit is able to implement the target parametric coupling function accurately

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; MOSFET; integrated circuit design; logic design; monolithic integrated circuits; neural nets; 0.6 micron; 200 mW; 5 V; CMOS integrated circuit; CMOS monolithic implementation; NMOS transistors; circuit simulation; corticonic network; nonlinear interconnection module; parametric coupling function; temperature variation; weak-inversion region; Bifurcation; Brain modeling; CMOS process; Calibration; Coupling circuits; Design engineering; Integrated circuit interconnections; Iron; MOSFETs; Systems engineering and theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2006. ISCAS 2006. Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Island of Kos

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9389-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2006.1693198

Filename

1693198