AER EAR: A Matched Silicon Cochlea Pair With Address Event Representation Interface

In this paper, we present an analog integrated circuit containing a matched pair of silicon cochleae and an address event interface. Each section of the cochlea, modeled by a second-order low-pass filter, is followed by a simplified inner hair cell circuit and a spiking neuron circuit. When the neuron spikes, an address event is generated on the asynchronous data bus. We present the results of the chip characterization and the results of an interaural time difference based sound localization experiment using the address event representation (AER) EAR. The chip was fabricated in a 3-metal 2-poly 0.5-mum CMOS process

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