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A low-power digital IC emulating intracellular calcium dynamics
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Author(s)
Soleimani, Hamid
Drakakis, Emmanuel M
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Low power/area cytomorphic chips may be interfaced and ultimately implanted in the human body for cell‐sensing and cell‐control applications of the future. In such electronic platforms, it is crucial to accurately mimic the biological timescales and operate in real time. This paper proposes a methodology where slow nonlinear dynamical systems describing the behaviour of naturally encountered biological systems can be efficiently realised in hardware. To this end, as a case study, a low power and efficient digital Application‐Specific Integrated Circuit capable of emulating slow intracellular calcium dynamics with timescales reaching to seconds has been fabricated in the commercially available AMS 0.35 μm technology and compared with its analog counterpart. The fabricated chip occupies an area of 1.5 mm2 (excluding the area of the pads) and consumes 18.93 nW for each calcium unit from a power supply of 3.3 V. The presented cytomimetic topology follows closely the behaviour of its biological counterpart, exhibiting similar time‐domain calcium ions dynamics. Results show that the implemented design has the potential to speed up large–scale simulations of slow intracellular dynamics by sharing cellular units in real time.
Date Issued
2018-11-01
Date Acceptance
2018-05-28
Citation
International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, 2018, 46 (11), pp.1929-1939
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/66135
DOI
https://www.dx.doi.org/10.1002/cta.2514
ISSN
0098-9886
Publisher
Wiley
Start Page
1929
End Page
1939
Journal / Book Title
International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications
Volume
46
Issue
11
Copyright Statement
© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article, which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cta.2514
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http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000448848300001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Engineering
calcium-induced calcium release (CICR) model
cytomimetic
digital ASIC
nonlinear circuit
synchronous cellular model
SPIKING NEURONS
IMPLEMENTATION
SYSTEMS
MODEL
CMOS
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2018-07-13
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