A 6X6 CELLS INTERCONNECTION-ORIENTED PROGRAMMABLE CHIP FOR CNN

The implementation of a versatile VLSI chip certainly represents an im portant step to improve the research on Cellular Neural Networks. In t his paper a VLSI realization of the multi-chip oriented, the 6 x 6 Dig itally Programmable Cellular Neural Network (6 x 6DPCNN) chip, will be presented. This chip covers most of the available one-neighbourhood t emplates for image processing applications. Moreover, it can be easily interconnected to others to carry out very large CNN arrays. The desi gns and some measured results of a single chip and a multi-chip board (the 720 DPCNN System) will be shown.