Functional-device-based VLSI for intelligent electronic systems

Abstract

Implementing intelligent systems directly on integrated circuits hardware is presented. The key concept of the approach is the enhancement in the basic functionality of a transistor and the binary-multivalued-analog merged computation using the functional device. Intelligent LSI systems based on the psychological model of a brain are proposed. The system stores the past experience in non-volatile vast analog memories and recall the maximum-likelihood event to a current input using the association processor working in the analog/digital-merged decision making principle.