Study of the Kohonen network with a discrete state space Original Research Article

Digital (or mixed mode) circuit implementations of neural networks bring one major modification to their ideal, defectless models: quantization of the weights dynamics. Would this modification completely perturb the behavior of the network, it will never be possible to implement it on a digital (or mixed mode) VLSI chip. Clearly, the analysis of quantization effects is crucial for practical applications. It has been mainly studied for Hopfield networks and multi-layer networks.