US 2018/0005108 A1 · NEURAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH BIOLOGICAL BEHAVIORS

Abstract

A circuit for emulating the behavior of biological neural circuits, the circuit including a plurality of nodes wherein each node comprises a neuron circuit, a time multiplexed synapse circuit coupled to an input of the neuron circuit, a time multiplexed short term plasticity (STP) circuit coupled to an input of the node and to the synapse circuit, a time multiplexed Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP) circuit coupled to the input of the node and to the synapse circuit, an output of the node coupled to the neuron circuit; and an interconnect fabric coupled between the plurality of nodes for providing coupling from the output of any node of the plurality of nodes to any input of any other node of the plurality of nodes.

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Dependent claims

A circuit for emulating the behavior of biological neural circuits, the circuit comprising:

a plurality of nodes wherein each node comprises:
a neuron circuit;
a time multiplexed synapse circuit coupled to an input of the neuron circuit;
a time multiplexed short term plasticity (STP) circuit coupled to an input of the node and to the synapse circuit;
a time multiplexed Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP) circuit coupled to the input of the node and to the synapse circuit;
and
an output of the node coupled to the neuron circuit;
and
an interconnect fabric coupled between the plurality of nodes for providing coupling from the output of any node of the plurality of nodes to any input of any other node of the plurality of nodes.

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A method for emulating the behavior of biological neural circuits, the method comprising:

providing a plurality of nodes;
providing a neuron circuit in each node;
providing a synapse circuit in each node coupled to an input of the neuron circuit;
providing a short term plasticity (STP) circuit in each node coupled to an input of the node and to the synapse circuit;
providing a Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP) circuit in each node coupled to the input of the node and to the synapse circuit;
providing an output of the node coupled to the neuron circuit;
time multiplexing the synapse, the STP, and the STDP circuits;
and
providing an interconnect fabric coupled between the plurality of nodes for providing coupling from the output of any node of the plurality of nodes to any input of any other node of the plurality of nodes.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Neural integrated circuit with biological behaviors

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Neural integrated circuit with biological behaviors

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