In this paper, the global exponential stability and periodicity of a class of recurrent neural networks with time delays are addressed by using Lyapunov functional method and inequality techniques. The delayed neural network includes the well-known Hopfield neural networks, cellular neural networks, and bidirectional associative memory networks as its special cases. New criteria are found to ascertain the global exponential stability and periodicity of the recurrent neural networks with time delays, and are also shown to be different from and improve upon existing ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Chicca, Elisabetta, Whatley, Adrian M., Lichtsteiner, Patrick, Dante, Vittorio, Delbruck, Tobias, Del Giudice, Paolo, Bouglas, Rodney J., and Indiveri, Giacomo
The growing interest in pulse-mode processing by neural networks is encouraging the development of hardware implementations of massively parallel networks of integrate-and-fire neurons distributed over multiple chips. Address-event representation (AER) has long been considered a convenient transmission protocol for spike based neuromorphic devices. One missing, long-needed feature of AER-based systems is the ability to acquire data from complex neuromorphic systems and to stimulate them using suitable data. We have implemented a general-purpose solution in the form of a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) board (the PCI-AER board) supported by software. We describe the main characteristics of the PCI-AER board, and of the related supporting software. To show the functionality of the PCI-AER infrastructure we demonstrate a reconfigurable multichip neuromorphic system for feature selectivity which models orientation tuning properties of cortical neurons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]