Day 4 - Neuromorphic Circuits: past, present and future - Melika Payvand, Giacomo Indiveri, Johannes Schemmel
today's authors: Eleni Nisioti, Muhammad Aitsam, Tobi Delbruck Florian Engert setting off for morning run, big surf Today was probably the windiest morning so far, with surfable waves forming at the hotel beach. Quite appropriately in this Day 4 lecture we are going to talk about "riding the wave of Moore's law". The lecture is titled "Neuromorphic Circuits: past, present and future" and Giacomo Indiveri from ETH Zurich is talking about the past (which made him realise the passage of time and ruminate over a jacuzzi invitation from his post-doc years in Switzerland). Giacomo said he will talk about two circuits. The first one is a simple MOSFET transistor: you apply some voltage between the Gate and the Source and there is a current flow from the Drain to the Source. If we look at the relationship between the voltage and the current then we get this two-phase relationship we see on the left: there is a first phase where there is a linear relationship a...