Neuromorphic engineering, also known as
neuromorphic computing, is a concept developed by
Carver Mead, in the late 1980s, describing the use of
very-large-scale integration (VLSI) systems containing electronic
analog circuits to mimic neuro-biological architectures present in the nervous system. In recent times the term
neuromorphic has been used to describe analog, digital, and mixed-mode analog/digital VLSI and software systems that implement models of
neural systems (for
perception,
motor control, or
multisensory integration). The implementation of neuromorphic computing on the hardware level can be realized by oxide-based memristors, threshold switches and transistors.