INTEGRATED-CIRCUIT IMPLEMENTATION OF FUZZY CONTROLLERS

This paper presents mixed-signal current-mode CMOS circuits to impleme nt programmable fuzzy controllers that perform the singleton or zero-o rder Sugeno's method. Design equations to characterize these circuits are provided to explain the precision and speed that they offer. This analysis is illustrated with the experimental results of prototypes in tegrated in standard CMOS technologies. These tests show that an equiv alent precision of 6 b is achieved. The connection of these blocks acc ording to a proposed architecture allows fuzzy chips with low silicon area whose inference speed is in the range of 2 Mega FLIPS (fuzzy logi c inferences per second).