With Giacomo Indiveri, I implemented portions of the Brody / Hopfield model of the mammalian olfactory bulb in hardware on an analog VLSI neuron array. Our version includes STDP processes on the neuron array, which increase sensitivity and selectivity to odours under network damage.

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This work was presented as a poster at the 2004 ZNZ symposium. PDF

This work was published as a paper at ISCAS 2005: DR Muir, G Indiveri, RJ Douglas. 2005. Form specifies function: Robust spike-based computation in analog VLSI without precise synaptic weights. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2005, Kobe, Japan. PDF