• DocumentCode
    3748323
  • Title

    Grayscale CNN computation of Boolean functions

  • Author

    Eero Lehtonen;Jussi H. Poikonen;Jonne K. Poikonen;Mika Laiho

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, Finland
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    180
  • Lastpage
    183
  • Abstract
    In this paper, an approach to computing arbitrary Boolean functions using a continuous-state cellular neural/nonlinear/nanoscale network (CNN) architecture with local static memory is presented. We explain how any given Boolean function can be mapped to a CNN array and how the function is executed using a sequence of wave operations. Furthermore, we explain how gray-scale waves could reduce the number of CNN cells required to perform a certain logic operation. The main benefits of our approach are simple implementation of arbitrary Boolean functions, asynchronous operation, and applicability in multi-state computation.
  • Keywords
    "Boolean functions","Gray-scale","Input variables","Analog memory","Parallel processing","Arrays","Silicon"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems (LASCAS), 2010 First IEEE Latin American Symposium on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LASCAS.2010.7410240
  • Filename
    7410240