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Published May 1997 | public
Journal Article

Floating-Gate Circuits for Adaptation of Saccadic Eye Movement Accuracy

Abstract

In this paper we describe an analog VLSI circuit, fabricated using a standard 2 µm, n-well, BiCMOS process,which utilizes floating-gate structures for non-volatile, on-chip,analog parameter storage. This circuit is designed to operate in the context of a hardware model of the primate oculomotor system and performs visually-guided, saccadic adaptation. The chip contains a one-dimensional array of photoreceptors and floating-gate circuits which are used to map retinal positions to motor output commands. The system's functionality is demonstrated by training the chip with several different mapping functions using a supervised-learning technique.

Additional Information

c1997 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Received April 9, 1996; Accepted October 24, 1996. The authors would like to thank Reid Harrison for constructing one of the test boards and generally motivating the completion of this project, Paul Hasler for valuable technical advice on the design and analysis of the floating-gate cell, Tonia Morris and Giacomo Indiveri for assistance in the careful editing of this document. T.H. is supported by an Office of Naval Research AASERT grant and by the NSF Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering at Caltech.

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