Analog gates for a VLSI fuzzy processor

Author

Catania, Vincenzo ; Russo, Marco

Author_Institution

Istituto di Inf. e Telecommun., Catania Univ., Italy

fYear

1995

fDate

4-7 Jan 1995

Firstpage

299

Lastpage

304

Abstract

In this paper we present proposals of some basic synchronous fuzzy circuits which are of help in the design of fuzzy processors. Our proposal is a compromise between a digital and an analog solution. We discretize the degrees of membership and make each elementary operator regenerate the valid levels We thus obtain circuits which virtually make no mistakes, regardless of the number of cascading stages and retroactions. So these circuits exhibit high noise immunity. This means that these “fuzzy-gates” are robust. As the fuzzy-gates proposed use a CMOS technology similar to that of the digital approach, they share the performance of the latter as far as dissipated power is concerned

Keywords

CMOS logic circuits; VLSI; analogue processing circuits; fuzzy logic; logic gates; CMOS technology; VLSI fuzzy processor; fuzzy gates; high noise immunity; synchronous fuzzy circuits; Analog-digital conversion; CMOS digital integrated circuits; CMOS logic circuits; CMOS technology; Fuzzy sets; Parallel processing; Pipelines; Proposals; Very large scale integration; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Design, 1995., Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Delhi

ISSN

1063-9667

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6905-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICVD.1995.512128

Filename

512128