Excitability in autonomous Boolean networks

Abstract

We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that excitable systems can be built with autonomous Boolean networks. Their experimental implementation is realized with asynchronous logic gates on a reconfigurabe chip. When these excitable systems are assembled into time-delay networks, their dynamics display nanosecond time-scale spike synchronization patterns that are controllable in period and phase.

6 pages, 5 figures, accepted in Europhysics Letters (epljournal.edpsciences.org)

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