Functional-device-based VLSI for intelligent electronic systems

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.