A pulse-type hardware bursting neuron model

A number of studies have recently been made on hardware implementation of a neuron model for applications to information processing functions of neural networks. We previously proposed a pulse-type hardware neuron model composed of a negative resistance circuit, resistors, and capacitors. In this paper, we propose a new pulse-type hardware bursting neuron model on the basis of the-previous study. First, we show that the pulse-type hardware-neuron model has the features of the BVP equations. Next, we show that the pulse-type hardware bursting neuron model can be constructed by making full use of the modified BVP equations with three adjustable parameters. (C) 2001 Scripta Technica, Electron Comm Jpn Pt 2, 84(3): 36-43, 2001.