Low-Voltage Low-Power Integrable CMOS Circuit Implementation of Integer- and Fractional-Order FitzHugh-Nagumo Neuron Model.

The low-voltage low-power sinh-domain (SD) implementations of integer- and fractional-order FitzHugh-Nagumo (FHN) neuron model have been introduced in this paper. Besides, the effect of fractional-orders on the external excitation current and dynamics of the neuron has been examined in this paper. The proposed SD designs of FHN neuron model have the benefits of: 1) low-voltage operation; 2) integrability, due to resistor-less design and the employment of only grounded components; 3) electronic tunability of performance parameters; and 4) low-power implementation due to the inherent properties of SD technique.

An ultra-low-voltage electronic implementation of inertial neuron model with nonmonotonous Liao's activation function.

The output of every neuron in neural network is specified by the employed activation function (AF) and therefore forms the heart of neural networks. As far as the design of artificial neural networks (ANNs) is concerned, hardware approach is preferred over software one because it promises the full utilization of the application potential of ANNs. Therefore, besides some arithmetic blocks, designing AF in hardware is the most important for designing ANN.