VLSI Design Constraints for Neural and Fuzzy Mixed-Signal Sequential Processors


Authors: Jordi Madrenas, Eduard Alarcón, Jordi Cosp, J.Manuel Moreno, Alberto Poveda and  Joan Cabestany



Journal/Conference: proceedings of the XIIII Conference Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 1999 (DCIS99),
P. Mallorca, November 1999

Abstract - VLSI mixed-signal design provides a tradeoff between the fast and compact but fixed analog implementations of soft computing algorithms and the programmable but bulky and power-hungry digital counterparts. In this paper, a sequentiality study of such systems is performed. Two sequential example processors and the key subsystems for sequential mixed-signal soft computing are described. Feedback from the designed processors and subsystems allowed considering the technology constraints for the sequentiality study and extension to different sequentiality degrees.