2026/5/27
Sohrab Majidifar

Sohrab Majidifar

Academic rank: Assistant Professor
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Education: PhD.
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Faculty: Faculty ofٍٍ Electrical Engineering
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E-mail: sohrab.majidi [at] gmail.com
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Phone: 1105
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Research

Title
Simultaneous effects of temperature and magnetic flux on a network of Huber–Braun neurons: Modeling and hardware implementation results
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Memristive Huber–Braun neuron model Temperature-dependent neurodynamics Neuromorphic hardware optimization FPGA implementation
Year
2026
Journal Alexandria Engineering Journal
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Researchers Sohrab Majidifar

Abstract

This paper investigates the simultaneous effects of temperature and electromagnetic flux on the dynamics of a network of Huber–Braun (HB) neuron models. The model incorporates memristive feedback to emulate electromagnetic flux and temperature-dependent scaling to modulate ion-channel kinetics. Results show that increasing temperature shifts activity from low-frequency bursting to high-frequency tonic spiking, whereas stronger magnetic flux coupling suppresses spiking, indicating a quenching effect. Sensitivity analysis reveals that electromagnetic flux improves robustness by reducing sensitivity to input-current fluctuations. Noise analysis indicates that memristive feedback yields a more gradual response to stochastic perturbations than the non-memristive case. At the network level, simulations on a 150 × 150 lattice reveal spatiotemporal patterns, including spiral waves, whose stability and morphology depend on the coupling coefficient, stimulus amplitude, and frequency. Strong coupling promotes synchronized wave propagation. Two Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) realizations are presented: an accurate HB design and a hardware-optimized approximated HB (AHB) model. On Virtex-6, AHB reduces slice registers by 10.76%, Look-Up Table Flip-Flop (LUT-FF) pairs by 15.89%, and slice LUTs by 1.22%, while increasing the maximum frequency from 145.21 MHz to 235.24 MHz (61.98%). Overall, AHB achieves high-speed, resource-efficient neuromorphic hardware without sacrificing dynamical accuracy.