Adaptive Neuromorphic Architecture (ANA)

• DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2013.02.009
• Publication Date: 2013-03-14T01:31:43Z
• Authors: Frank Zhigang Wang; Leon O. Chua; Xiao Yang; Na Helian; Ronald Tetzlaff; Torsten Schmidt; Caroline Li; Jose Manuel Garci...; Wanlong Chen; Dominique Chu
• Keywords: Neuromorphic engineering; Memristor; Electrical element

We designed Adaptive Neuromorphic Architecture (ANA) that self-adjusts its inherent parameters (for instance, the resonant frequency) naturally following the stimuli frequency. Such an architecture is required for brain-like engineered systems because some parameters of the stimuli (for instance, the stimuli frequency) are not known in advance. Such adaptivity comes from a circuit element with memory, namely mem-inductor or mem-capacitor (memristor's sisters), which is history-dependent in its behavior. As a hardware model of biological systems, ANA can be used to adaptively reproduce the observed biological phenomena in amoebae.