NEUROMORPHIC TECHNOLOGY PART 2

HOW ARE THEY IMPLEMENTED??

Neuromorphic  chips  are  implemented using  micro  and  nanoscale  transistors. Nonlinearity  of  silicon  transistors  makes replicating  the  electrochemical  functions of human neurons easier. In neuromorphic  chips  transistors  are conventionally  used  as  switches  and  are also  used  as  analog  dials.  They  are  also very  useful in providing  neuroplasticity  to the  neuromorphic  chips,  a  characteristic of  human  brain  that  enables  it  to  modify synapses during processing of data. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?? Applications of Neuromorphic Chips

Computational Systems Neuromorphic chips attract the attention  of  companies  in  the  field  of computation Because  they  are  far  more  efficient  in terms of  energy  consumption.  An example is  SyNAPSE  (Systems  of  Neuromorphic Adaptive  Plastic  Scalable  Electronics) project  that  aims  at  developing  extremely low  power  computational  systems  like the  biological  systems.  Recently,  IBM  a part of  SyNAPSE  project tested  a chip, TrueNorth.  An  advantage  of  these neuromorphic  chips  is  that  they  store information  as  a  synaptic  strength  the systems  developed  from  these  chips  do not  need  separate  computational  and memory  units.  Another  advantage  of using neuromorphic chips in Computational durability. Artificial Neural Membrane (ANM) Neuromorphic  chips  are  also  finding applications  in  space  research.  NASA  is funding  research  on  Neuromorphic Systems  &  Artificial  Neural  Membrane  ( ANM  )  Technology  to  develop  the Flapping Wing Concept Vehicle. Neuromorphic  chips  can  help  in understanding human brain also. MEDICAL FIELD Neuromorphic  chips  are  used  in  retinal implant  technology  which  is  being developed  to  help  people  who  have  lost their  vision  partially.  Some  of  the applications  reported  in  recently  include speech  recognition,  face  recognition  and object  recognition.  They  also  find applications  in  replacing  conventional digital logic gates. –Sanjana Obili(ECE-3/4-B)

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