Fuzzy Hardware: A Retrospective and Analysis

Author

Zavala, Antonio Hernández ; Nieto, Oscar Camacho

Author_Institution

Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria en Ing. y Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria en Ingenierfa y Tecnologfas Avanzadas, Inst. Politec. Nac., Mexico City, Mexico

Volume

20

Issue

4

fYear

2012

Firstpage

623

Lastpage

635

Abstract

Worldwide, fuzzy systems are becoming a very useful mathematical tool to deal with nonlinear problems by inferring from a rule base that contains the necessary knowledge extracted from an expert. There are diverse forms to implement a fuzzy system depending on the desired response time, for which hardware implementations are best suited for high-speed demands. Fuzzy hardware has been exploited since the mid-1980s, and there have been many interesting architecture cases with different functional and performance characteristics that are reviewed in this paper from a categorical and historical point of view.

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; field programmable gate arrays; fuzzy logic; fuzzy systems; inference mechanisms; knowledge acquisition; knowledge based systems; ASIC; FPGA; application-specific integrated circuits; field-programmable gate array; fuzzy hardware; fuzzy logic; fuzzy systems; knowledge extraction; mathematical tool; nonlinear problems; programmable devices; rule inference; Computer architecture; Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy systems; Hardware; Pipeline processing; Pragmatics; Software; Decision making; digital hardware; fuzzy hardware; fuzzy systems; inference system;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1063-6706

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TFUZZ.2011.2181179

Filename

6111466