Recently, the development of smart materials and the study of their properties has provided
an innovative approach to the field of tissue engineering. Piezoelectrics, which are able to …

Conventional vision, auditory, and olfactory sensors generate large volumes of redundant
data and as a result tend to consume excessive power. To address these shortcomings …

Digital circuits such as the flip-flop use feedback to achieve multi-stability and nonlinearity to
restore signals to logical levels, for example 0 and 1. Analogue feedback circuits are …

This article presents a comprehensive overview of the hardware realizations of artificial
neural network (ANN) models, known as hardware neural networks (HNN), appearing in …

Neuromorphic systems are gaining increasing importance in an era where CMOS digital
computing techniques are reaching physical limits. These silicon systems mimic extremely …

We review the pros and cons of analog and digital computation. We propose that
computation that is most efficient in its use of resources is neither analog computation nor …

Pulse oximeters are ubiquitous in modern medicine to noninvasively measure the
percentage of oxygenated hemoglobin in a patient's blood by comparing the transmission …

We report a programmable analog bionic ear (cochlear implant) processor in a 1.5-/spl
mu/m BiCMOS technology with a power consumption of 211/spl mu/W and 77-dB dynamic …

Cochlear hair cells convert sound vibration into electrical potential, and loss of these cells
diminishes auditory function. In response to mechanical stimuli, piezoelectric materials …

This paper proposes an integrated event-based binaural silicon cochlea system aimed at
efficient spatial audition and auditory scene analysis. The cochlea chip has a matched pair …