A VHDL-AMS based spiking neuron model

Abstract

Nowadays trends in the electronic system design look beyond the conventional computing architectures towards biologically inspired solutions to find new circuit ideas to advance the computational power of the future computational structures. The present paper introduces a VHDL-AMS based spiking neuron model, which exhibits realistic behavior. This approach is suitable to integrate hybrid neuro-eletronic circuits into a compact model used to perform the functional verification of the electronic system, which precedes its VLSI implementation.