Dante Del Corso

University of Turin, Politecnico di Torino

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Total Citations

217

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About

Dante Del Corso is a pioneering figure in the intersection of neuromorphic engineering and robotics, with a career defined by innovative approaches to hardware design. His primary research areas include pulse-stream VLSI neural networks, mixed-signal circuit design, and autonomous robotic systems for space exploration. Del Corso’s most impactful contribution is his seminal 1991 work on pulse-stream neural networks, which introduced a hybrid analog-digital technique for representing neural states as pulse sequences. This paper, with 201 citations, laid foundational principles for pulsed encoding, arithmetic, and intercommunication in silicon neural systems, offering a novel synapse design that balanced computational efficiency with hardware simplicity. In 1993, he extended this work by demonstrating a chip set using coherent pulse width and edge modulations, optimizing neural circuits for low-energy computation—a key achievement for embedded AI. Beyond neural hardware, Del Corso contributed to planetary robotics with the ALGEN walking rover project (1997), showcasing his versatility in applying bio-inspired principles to autonomous exploration. His work remains influential for researchers in neuromorphic computing and low-power VLSI design, bridging theoretical neural models with practical, energy-efficient implementations.