Abstract
"Synaptic Rewiring in Neuromorphic VLSI for Topographic Map Formation", Electronic and Computer Engineering Dept., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 10th Jun 2008.
I will talk about topographic maps in biology, how I've modeled their development, and how I've implemented this model in VLSI. I will focus on Address-Event Representation (AER), a protocol for transmitting neural pulses, and will present a design for an AER receiver which is optimised for scalability as connection fan-out increases. I'll further discuss the rewiring of connections and will present a circuit for calculating Euclidean distance across a chip.