Computationally Efficient Low Power Neuron Model for Digital Brain

Abstract

Modern supercomputers are capable of performing elementary operations of the order of petaflops. This power is comparable with the computational power of a human brain. The power supply required by supercomputers is in megawatts while human brain requires few watts to perform the same elementary operations as the modern supercomputers can. Thus the power consumption of supercomputers can be reduced (about 10 times) by considering the neuromorphic structure of a brain and attempt to mimic it on hardware chip to construct the computer that can function in the same manner as the human brain. In this paper we have proposed to develop the model for single brain cell, that can be replicated to built the whole brain model having computational power of supercomputers but the energy supply comparable with human brain.