Inter-spike-intervals analysis of AER Poisson-like generator hardware

Address–Event–Representation (AER) is a communication protocol for transferring images between chips, originally developed for bio-inspired image-processing systems. Such systems may consist of a complicated hierarchical structure with many chips that transmit images among them in real time, while p...

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Autores: Linares Barranco, Alejandro, Oster, Matthias, Cascado Caballero, Daniel, Jiménez Moreno, Gabriel, Civit Balcells, Antón, Linares Barranco, Bernabé
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/74486
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/74486
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2006.07.020
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Bio-inspired
Neuro-inspired
AER
LFSR
Poisson
FPGA
USB
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Sumario:Address–Event–Representation (AER) is a communication protocol for transferring images between chips, originally developed for bio-inspired image-processing systems. Such systems may consist of a complicated hierarchical structure with many chips that transmit images among them in real time, while performing some processing (for example, convolutions). In developing AER-based systems it is very convenient to have available some means of generating AER streams from on-computer stored images. Rank order coding (ROC) and Poisson rate coding are the extremes of spikes coding. In this paper, we present a pseudo-random hardware method for generating AER streams in real time from a sequence of images stored in a computer’s memory. The Kolmogorov–Smirnov test has been applied to quantify that this method follows a Poisson distribution of the spikes. A USB–AER board, developed by our RTCAR group, have been used for the measurements. An example scenario of use under the EU CAVIAR project is presented.