Université de Bordeaux (UBx)

The University of Bordeaux ensures the coordination and management of the ULPEC project.

The University of Bordeaux is a higher-education institution located in Bordeaux, in the South-West of France.

Welcoming more than 53 000 students and home to more than 5600 lecturers and researchers, the University of Bordeaux is one of the biggest academic institutions in France.

In 2010, the University of Bordeaux became one of the first French universities to be granted the Initiative d’Excellence (IdEx) label and structural funds to develop international-ranking excellence clusters in neuroscience, cardiology, medical imaging, lasers and optics, digital certification, advanced materials, archaeology, environment climate, health and society.

Furthermore, the University of Bordeaux’ international ambition led to its involvement in 150 European research projects, to the establishment to 18 International Associated Laboratories (LIA) and to highly promising collaborations with universities of international status, such as the University Mc Gill (Canada), the University of California (USA), the University of Tsukuba and the University of Kyoto (Japan).

The Architecture of Silicon Neural Networks (AS2N) research group involved in the ULPEC has experience on circuits and systems design, with a high expertise on analogue and mixed integrated circuits design dedicated to neuromorphic computing.

The group focuses on the implementation of i) emulating biologically-realistic model neurons in FPGA to investigate biological neural networks thanks to the hybrid technique and ii) bio-inspired model neurons in analogue integrated circuits and memristive synapses.

Recently, the AS2N group has patented an original integrated circuit that allows using memristors as excitatory or inhibitory synapses.

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