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Abstract 


The main objectives of neuromorphic engineering are the research, modeling, and implementation of neural functioning in the human brain. We provide a hardware solution that can replicate such a nature-inspired system by merging multiple scientific domains and is based on neural cell processes. This work provides a modified version of the original Fitz-Hugh Nagumo (FHN) neuron using a simple 2V term called Hybrid Piece-Wised Base-2 Model (HPWBM), which accurately reproduces numerous patterns of the original neuron model. With reduced terms, we suggest modifying the original nonlinear term to achieve high matching accuracy and little computing error. Time domain and phase portraits are used to validate the proposed model, which shows that it can reproduce all of the FHN model's properties with high accuracy and little mistake. We provide an effective digital hardware approach for large-scale neuron implementations based on resource-sharing and pipelining strategies. The Hardware Description Language (HDL) is used to construct the hardware on an FPGA as a proof of concept. The recommended model hardly uses 0.48 percent of the resources on a Virtex 4 FPGA board, according to the results of the hardware implementation. The circuit can run at a maximum frequency of 448.236 MHz, according to the static timing study.

Funding 


Funders who supported this work.

Fundamental Research Funds for the Provincial Universities of Zhejiang (1)

General Scientific Research Fund of Zhejiang Provincial Education Department (1)

King Khalid University

    Large Group Research (1)

    Lishui Science and Technology (1)

    National Natural Science Foundation of China (1)

    Supercomputing Center of Hangzhou Dianzi University for Providing Computing Resources

      Wenzhou Science and Technology Plan (1)

      Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (2)

      Zhejiang Provincial Postdoctoral Research (1)