Title :
VLSI fuzzy chip and inference accelerator board systems
Author :
Watanabe, Hiroyuki ; Symon, James R. ; Dettloff, Wayne D. ; Yount, Kathy E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Abstract :
The architecture and operational features of a VLSI fuzzy logic inference processor are described. Also described are the architecture and associated high-level software of two VMEbus-board systems based on the fuzzy chip. The VLSI implementation of a fuzzy logic inference mechanism allows the use of rule-based control and decision making in demanding real-time applications. The CMOS chip consists of 688000 transistors, of which 476000 are used for RAM memory. In addition to operating in a robot, the single chip board is installed on a Sun-3 workstation for further research and software development
Keywords :
VLSI; computerised control; fuzzy logic; inference mechanisms; knowledge based systems; microprocessor chips; real-time systems; satellite computers; CMOS; RAM memory; Sun-3 workstation; VLSI fuzzy chip; VLSI fuzzy logic inference processor; VMEbus-board systems; fuzzy logic inference mechanism; inference accelerator board systems; real-time applications; rule-based control; single chip board; Application software; Computer architecture; Decision making; Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy systems; Inference mechanisms; Random access memory; Read-write memory; Robots; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Multiple-Valued Logic, 1991., Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Victoria, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2145-1
DOI :
10.1109/ISMVL.1991.130716
