Design of a spike event coded RGT microphone for neuromorphic auditory systems

This paper presents the design of a spike event coded resonant gate transistor microphone system for neuromorphic auditory applications. The microphone system employs an array of resonant gate transistors (RGT) to transduce acoustic input directly into bandpass filtered analog outputs. The bandpass...

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Published in2011 IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) pp. 2465 - 2468
Main Authors Koickal, Thomas Jacob, Latif, Rhonira, Gouveia, L., Mastropaolo, E., Wang, S., Hamilton, A., Cheung, R., Newton, M., Smith, L.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.05.2011
Subjects
Acoustics
Arrays
Logic gates
Microphones
Neuromorphics
Resonant frequency
Transistors
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Summary:This paper presents the design of a spike event coded resonant gate transistor microphone system for neuromorphic auditory applications. The microphone system employs an array of resonant gate transistors (RGT) to transduce acoustic input directly into bandpass filtered analog outputs. The bandpass filtered analog outputs are encoded as spike time events by a spike event coder and are then transmitted asynchronously by using the Address Event Representation (AER) protocol. The microphone system is designed to receive external inputs in the spike time domain to actively control the RGT response, a feature not present in other MEMS microphone systems implemented so far. System level simulations showing the response of the RGT sensor model and its spike event coded response are presented.
ISBN:1424494737
9781424494736
ISSN:0271-4302
2158-1525
DOI:10.1109/ISCAS.2011.5938103