A floating gate CMOS Euclidean distance calculator and its application to hand-written digit recognition

Author

Vlassis, S. ; Fikos, G. ; Siskos, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

350

Abstract

In this work, a Euclidean distance calculator is presented. The circuit comprises of simple computing blocks, their basic element being the floating gate MOSFET (FGMOS), exploiting the merits of this device in designing circuits with low-voltage and rail-to-rail operation. Therefore the overall circuit has the characteristics of modularity, low-voltage and rail-to-rail operation under a single supply voltage, accuracy and simplicity. The circuit is designed with 2μ MIETEC CMOS technology and is used in the simulation of a hand-written digit recognition system using the nearest neighbour classification method. The simulation results presented, demonstrate the functionality of the circuit

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; VLSI; digital signal processing chips; handwritten character recognition; image classification; integrated circuit design; 2 micron; FGMOS; MIETEC CMOS technology; floating gate CMOS Euclidean distance calculator; floating gate MOSFET; functionality; hand-written digit recognition; low-voltage operation; modularity; nearest neighbour classification method; rail-to-rail operation; CMOS technology; Capacitance; Circuit simulation; Euclidean distance; Laboratories; MOSFET circuits; Physics; Rail to rail operation; Threshold voltage; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Processing, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Thessaloniki

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6725-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIP.2001.958123

Filename

958123