High Speed and Low Digital Resources Implementation of Hodgkin-Huxley Neuronal Model Using Base-2 Functions

Neurons are the basic blocks in the Central Nervous System (CNS). Simulation and hardware realization of these blocks are vital in neuromorphic engineering. This paper presents a set of multiplierless mathematical equations based on 2(X) terms to achieve a low-cost, high-speed, and high-accuracy digital implementation of Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) neuron model. The HH model is the most complicated and high-accuracy among the mathematical neuron models. The proposed model can reproduce spiking behaviors of the original HH model with high precision. To validate the mathematical simulation results, the proposed model has been synthesized and implemented on Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) development board. Hardware synthesis and physical implementations reveal that the biological behavior of different spiking patterns can be reproduced with higher performance and significantly lower implementation costs compared with the original HH model. Also, in this approach the maximum frequency of 200 MHz is achievable which is valuable in comparison with other similar works.

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The paper presents a set of multiplierless mathematical equations based on 2(X) terms for the digital implementation of the high-accuracy Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) neuron model. Hardware synthesis shows that the proposed model can reproduce different spiking patterns with higher performance and significantly lower implementation costs, achieving a maximum frequency of 200 MHz.