A flash neural A/D converter with gray coded outputs

摘要

This paper introduces a new approach to design a 4-bit flash A/D Converter (ADC) with Gray coded outputs. For this purpose, an artificial neural network (ANN) is chosen and trained in order to identify an ideal 4-bit ADC model. To test the obtained neural ADC, simulation results are carried out to show the efficiency regarding to parallel encoders and neural ADCs already proposed.