从脉冲神经元脉冲收发的需求出发，研究发现电流脉冲与单电子晶体管的库伦震荡之间的相似性，利用这种相似性提出基于单电子晶体管的脉冲神经元模型，设计出单电子电路模型并用PSPICE进行模拟仿真. 仿真结果表明，该脉冲神经元模型能满足Izhikevich脉冲神经元模型规则脉冲的要求，实现电流脉冲的输入输出，具有脉冲编码的能力.
To implement the spiking neurons with pulse input and output, this paper studies similarity between current pulses and the Coulomb oscillations of single-electron transistor (SET). Based on the similarity, a new spiking neuron circuits model is designed and implemented with SETs, and simulated using PSPICE. The simulation results demonstrate that the model meets the needs of regular spiking of Izhikevich spiking neurons and has the capacity of spiking encoding via input and output of current pulses.
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