• DocumentCode
    3124375
  • Title

    A high performance processor for applications based on fuzzy logic

  • Author

    Ascia, Giuseppe ; Catania, Vincenzo

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. di Inf. e Telecommun., Catania, Italy
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    22-25 Aug. 1999
  • Firstpage
    1685
  • Abstract
    The paper presents the architecture of a digital processor dedicated to execution of fuzzy inference. The paper presents the design of a VLSI architecture dedicated to execution of fuzzy inference. The execution speed is up to 16 MFLIPS for inferences with 128 rules with 4 linguistic variables, 11 MFLIPS with 8 linguistic variables. This level of performance is obtained by means of a method that reduces the number of rules to be processed. Moreover, rule processing is split into a sequence of pipeline stages which make it possible to process the active rules at each clock cycle and a certain degree of parallelism is introduced into these stages.
  • Keywords
    fuzzy logic; inference mechanisms; parallel architectures; VLSI architecture; execution speed; fuzzy inference; fuzzy logic; rule processing; Computer architecture; Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy sets; Hardware; Parallel architectures; Parallel processing; Pipelines; Telecommunications; Time factors; Very large scale integration;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Fuzzy Systems Conference Proceedings, 1999. FUZZ-IEEE '99. 1999 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Seoul, South Korea
  • ISSN
    1098-7584
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5406-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/FUZZY.1999.790159
  • Filename
    790159