Implementation of CMOS neuron for robot motion control unit

Author

Jing Lu ; Jing Yang ; Yong-Bin Kim ; Kyung Ki Kim

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

17-19 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

12

Abstract

This paper presents a CMOS neuron circuit design based on the Hindermarsh-Rose (HR) neuron model. In order to be fabricated in a 0.18μm CMOS technology with 1.8V compatible transistors, both time and amplitude scaling of HR neuron model is adopted. This on chip solution also minimizes the power consumption and circuit size, which is ideal for motion control unit of the proposed bio-mimetic micro-robot. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed CMOS neuron performs the expected waveform with time and amplitude scaled. The chip was fabricated by MagnaChip with an active die area of 1.1mm including I/O pads. The experimental results validate the performance of this CMOS neuron.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; biomimetics; integrated circuit design; microrobots; motion control; neural chips; power consumption; CMOS neuron circuit design; CMOS technology; HR neuron model; Hindermarsh-Rose neuron model; I/O pads; amplitude scaling; biomimetic microrobot; circuit size; compatible transistors; power consumption; robot motion control unit; size 0.18 mum; time scaling; voltage 1.8 V; Biological system modeling; CMOS integrated circuits; Integrated circuit modeling; Mathematical model; Neurons; Robots; Semiconductor device modeling; CMOS neuron; Central pattern generator; motion control unit;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), 2013 International

Conference_Location

Busan

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISOCC.2013.6863971

Filename

6863971