Switched-Current Chaotic Neurons

Abstract

The Letter presents two nonlinear CMOS current-mode circuits that implement neuron soma equations for chaotic neural networks. They have been fabricated in a double-metal, single-poly 1.6µm CMOS technology. The neuron soma circuits use a novel, highly accurate CMOS circuit strategy to realise piecewise-linear characteristics in the current-mode domain. Their prototypes obtain reduced area and low voltage power supply (down to 3V) with a clock frequency of 500 kHz.