Emulation of Ion Channel Dynamics in CMOS VLSI
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In this paper a novel VLSI implementation is proposed to emulate ion channels gating dynamics of neurons. The technique is demonstrated by implementing K ion channels of a Morris-Lecar (ML) neuron model. The circuit emulates the opening and closing of 256 individual ion channels and is implemented in 0.18μm CMOS technology. Simulation results indicate that the circuit consumes 2.7μA from a 0.8V supply, and has an area estimate of 150× 150μm.
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تاریخ انتشار 2010