Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Real-time encoding and compression of neuronal spikes by metal-oxide memristors

  • Isha Gupta,
  • Alexantrou Serb,
  • Ali Khiat,
  • Ralf Zeitler,
  • Stefano Vassanelli,
  • Themistoklis Prodromakis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12805
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The need for intelligent compression of big data, for example in neuroscience, has sparked interest in neuromorphic data processing. Here, Gupta et al.use memristors as event integrators to encode and compress neuronal spiking activity recorded by multi-electrode arrays.