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Modern integrated circuits are essentially two-dimensional (2D). Partial three-dimensional (3D) integration and 3D-transistor-level integrated circuits have long been anticipated as routes to improve the performance, cost and size of…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-21 Logan G. Wright , William H. Renninger , Frank W. Wise

We consider adiabatic superconducting cells operating as an artificial neuron and synapse of a multilayer perceptron (MLP). Their compact circuits contain just one and two Josephson junctions, respectively. While the signal is represented…

Competition between synapses arises in some forms of correlation-based plasticity. Here we propose a game theory-inspired model of synaptic interactions whose dynamics is driven by competition between synapses in their weak and strong…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-10-19 Ajaz Ahmad Bhat , Gaurang Mahajan , Anita Mehta

Memristors are promising next-generation memory candidates that are nonvolatile, possess low power requirements and are capable of nanoscale fabrication. In this article we physically realise and describe the use of organic memristors in…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2012-12-17 Victor Erokhin , Gerard David Howard , Andrew Adamatzky

Synapse plays an important role of learning in a neural network; the learning rules which modify the synaptic strength based on the timing difference between the pre- and post-synaptic spike occurrence is termed as Spike Time Dependent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Roshan Gopalakrishnan , Arindam Basu

Conventional neuro-computing architectures and artificial neural networks have often been developed with no or loose connections to neuroscience. As a consequence, they have largely ignored key features of biological neural processing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Giacomo Indiveri , Bernabe Linares-Barranco , Robert Legenstein , George Deligeorgis , Themistoklis Prodromakis

Modern computers perform pre-defined operations using static memory components, whereas biological systems learn through inherently dynamic, time-dependent processes in synapses and neurons. The biological learning process also relies on…

Different real-world cognitive tasks evolve on different relevant timescales. Processing these tasks requires memory mechanisms able to match their specific time constants. In particular, the working memory utilizes mechanisms that span…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Saverio Ricci , David Kappel , Christian Tetzlaff , Daniele Ielmini , Erika Covi

Recent advances in neuroscience together with nanoscale electronic device technology have resulted in huge interests in realizing brain-like computing hardwares using emerging nanoscale memory devices as synaptic elements. Although there…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Sukru Burc Eryilmaz , Duygu Kuzum , Rakesh Jeyasingh , SangBum Kim , Matthew BrightSky , Chung Lam , H. -S. Philip Wong

Analog computing at the edge is an emerging strategy to limit data storage and transmission requirements, as well as energy consumption, and its practical implementation is in its initial stages of development. Translating properties of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Giuseppe Leo , Paolo Gibertini , Irem Ilter , Erika Covi , Ole Richter , Elisabetta Chicca

Organic electrochemical transistors formed by in operando electropolymerization of the semiconducting channel are increasingly becoming recognized as a simple and effective implementation of synapses in neuromorphic hardware. However, very…

Much of the information processing performed by a neuron occurs in the dendritic tree. For neural systems using light for communication, it is advantageous to convert signals to the electronic domain at synaptic terminals so dendritic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Jeffrey M. Shainline

Synthetic biologists have made great progress over the past decade in developing methods for modular assembly of genetic sequences and in engineering biological systems with a wide variety of functions in various contexts and organisms.…

Cooperative collective dynamics is a principal determinant of the ability of synthetic micromotors to perform specific functions. However, realizing controllable and predictable collective behavior in complex physiological environments…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Jiang-Xing Chen , Jia-Qi Hu , Raymond Kapral

Learning in the brain requires complementary mechanisms: potentiation and activity-dependent homeostatic scaling. We introduce synaptic scaling to a biologically-realistic spiking model of neocortex which can learn changes in oscillatory…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-04-09 Mark Rowan , Samuel Neymotin

Nanoelectronic devices emulating neuro-synaptic functionalities through their intrinsic physics at low operating energies is imperative toward the realization of brain-like neuromorphic computers. In this work, we leverage the non-linear…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Arnob Saha , A N M Nafiul Islam , Zijian Zhao , Shan Deng , Kai Ni , Abhronil Sengupta

Reconfigurable memristors featuring neural and synaptic functions hold great potential for neuromorphic circuits by simplifying system architecture, cutting power consumption, and boosting computational efficiency. Their additive…

Shared upstream dynamical processes are frequently the source of common inputs in various physical and biological systems. However, due to finite signal transmission speeds and differences in the distance to the source, time shifts between…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-03-10 Ehsan Bolhasani , Yousef Azizi , Alireza Valizadeh , Matjaz Perc

In state-of-the-art silicon devices, mobility of the carrier is enhanced by the lattice strain from the back substrate. Such an extra control of device performance is significant in realizing high performance computing and should be valid…

Synaptic plasticity is a key component of neuronal dynamics, describing the process by which the connections between neurons change in response to experiences. In this study, we extend a network model of $\theta$-neuron oscillators to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-01 Niamh Fennelly , Alannah Neff , Renaud Lambiotte , Andrew Keane , Áine Byrne