%0 Generic %D 2009 %T First steps towards a CPU made of Spiking Neural P systems %A Miguel A. GutiƩrrez-Naranjo %A Alberto Leporati %C Oradea, Romania %I Agora University Editing House - CCC Publications %K Arithmetic operations %K Membrane computing %K spiking neural P systems %N 3 %P 244-252 %U http://journal.univagora.ro/?page=article_details&id=369 %V 4 %X We consider spiking neural P systems as devices which can be used to perform some basic arithmetic operations, namely addition, subtraction, comparison and multiplication by a fixed factor. The input to these systems are natural numbers expressed in binary form, encoded as appropriate sequences of spikes. A single system accepts as inputs numbers of any size. The present work may be considered as a first step towards the design of a CPU based on the working of spiking neural P systems. %8 30/2009