? Credit Points : 10  ? SCQF Level : 11  ? Acronym : INF-P-NVLSI

This course is exclusively designed to teach neuro-engineering to students in the 1+3 year Msc/PhD Doctoral Training Centre programme in Neuroinformatics. It specifically covers neuromorphic VLSI principles, and design and implementation of an simple neuron model.

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : None. This course is only open to students on the MSc by Research in Neuroinformatics

Home subject area

Neuroinformatics, (School of Informatics, Schedule O)

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 1 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

All of the following classes

Type Day Start End Area Lecture Wednesday 09:00 09:50 KB

After the course the students will be able to:
- describe and discuss the principles behind neuromorphic VLSI design and discuss potential applications and limitations
- develop neuromorphic VLSI circuitry from the specification stage and design stage to the implementation stage
- implement and test a VLSI system
- discuss design considerations in the various stages of the process.

Written Examination - 0%
Assessed Assignments - 100%

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Dr Anna Hobbs
Tel : (0131 6)50 2692
Email : Anna.Hobbs@ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Dr Douglas Armstrong
Tel : (0131 6)50 4492
Email : Douglas.Armstrong@ed.ac.uk

School Website : http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.scieng.ed.ac.uk/