IEEE BioCAS 2008 Intelligent Biomedical Systems Conference is taking place in Baltimore from November 20th - 22th, 2008.

Dr. Clyde Clarke has successfully completed and defended his Ph.D. dissertation, April 29, 2008

Dr. Francesco Tenore has successfully completed and defended his Ph.D. dissertation, February 1, 2008

INE NEWS - An online newsletter for the Neuromorphic Engineering community is launched. It is the official news site for the Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering

Prof. Ralph Etienne-Cummings is selected as a National Academies of Science Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, November 8 - 11th, 2007.

EETimes online: Analog chip could be Rx for spinal cord injury features work done by R. Jacob Vogelstein and Francesco Tenore, September 17, 2007.

Recent Publications

• N Ekekwe, R Etienne-Cummings, “Adaptive Hysteretic Comparator with Opamp Threshold Level Setting,” accepted to 2008 IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Knoxville, USA ,August 10-13, 2008.
• F. Folowosele, F. Tenore, A. Russell, G. Orchard, M. Vismer, J. Tapson, and R. Etienne-Cummings, “Implementing a Neuromorphic Cross-Correlation Engine with Silicon Neurons,” accepted to IEEE ISCAS 2008, Seattle, Washington, May 2008.
• G. Orchard, A. Russell, K. Mazurek, F. Tenore, R. Etienne-Cummings, “Configuring Silicon Neural Networks Using Genetic Algorithms,” accepted to IEEE ISCAS 2008, Seattle, Washington, May 2008.
• J. Tapson, M.P. Vismer, C. Jin, A van Schaik, F. Folowosele, and R. Etienne-Cummings, “A Two-Neuron Cross-Correlation Circuit with a Wide and Continuous Range of Time Delay,” accepted to IEEE ISCAS 2008, Seattle, Washington, May 2008.
• N. Ekekwe, P. Kazanzides and R. Etienne-Cummings, “A Wide Speed Range and High Precision Position and Velocity Measurements Chip with Serial Peripheral Interface,” Elsevier Integration, the VLSI Journal, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 297-305, Feb. 2008.
• R. Philip, V. Gruev, D. Orr, J. Van der Spiegel and R. Etienne-Cummings, “ A Linear and Low-Noise Current Domain Imager,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 42, No. 11, Nov. 2007.
• M. Chi, U. Mallik, E. Choi, M. Clapp, G. Cauwenberghs and R. Etienne-Cummings, “CMOS Pixel-Level ADC with Change Detection,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 42, No. 10, pp. 2187-2196, Oct. 2007.
• J. Volgelstein, U. Mallik, G. Cauwenberghs and R. Etienne-Cummings, “Real-Time Image Processing using a Spiking Imager and an Integrate-and-Fire Array Transceiver System,” Neural Computation, Vol. 19, pp. 2281-2300, 2007.