Table 3.

Power consumption comparison between the proposed neuron circuit and other VLSI neuron models.

Neuron model	Number of transistors used	Power consumption	References
Conductance-based	27–30+	60 μW	Mahowald and Douglas, 1991
Integrate-and-Fire	18–20	>10 μW for output firing rate of 100 Hz	Indiveri et al., 2006
Hindmarsh-Rose	90	163.4 μW	Lee et al., 2004
Quadratic Integrate-and-Fire	14	8–40 μW	Wijekoon and Dudek, 2008
Log-domain low pass filter neuron	16	50–1000 nW	Arthur and Boahen, 2007
Log-domain Izhikevich neuron	17+	2.6 μW at rest state	Van Schaik et al., 2010
FGLIF	13	<30 pW