Hardware implementation of intelligent systems

  • Authors:
  • Marco Russo;Luigi Caponetto

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Messina, Sant'Agata, Italy;INF Section of Catania, Corso Italia, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Hardware implementation of intelligent systems
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Neural computing, fuzzy logic and evolutionary computing are widely used in a broad range of application fields. While many fields take full advantage from conventional von Neumann processors, there are still classes, such as for example intelligent systems in high-energy physics, requiring the speed of fully hardware implementations. In the first part of this chapter, we discuss the hardware specifications of intelligent systems. These are outlined as basic specifications (including external input/output architecture, topology for neural networks or defuzzification function for fuzzy systems), hardware specifications (including the technology and the precision required), and performance specifications. These specifications are mapped over existing architectures such as general purpose (micro controllers and digital signal processors, extended instruction set architectures and coprocessors), and dedicated ones. Further, we review a sample of various VLSI implementations including digital and analog. We also investigate a selection of basic building blocks suitable for neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms.