Fuzzy processor implementation on a field programmable gate array.

摘要

Fuzzy systems have been applied successfully to a wide variety of fields. Although fuzzy theory was criticized by the academic community at its early stages of development, recently successful applications of fuzzy systems in the industry, directed many researchers to this emerging field. Fuzzy systems have found applications in expert systems, signal processing, process control, communications, among others. However, a great deal of effort has been exerted on the applications of fuzzy systems on control problems due to the initial success of fuzzy systems implementation in this field.; Traditionally, fuzzy inference systems are software-implemented using high level languages, or hardware implemented in a general purpose microprocessor. Due to the nature of fuzzy inference system computations, like possibility of parallel processing and its intensive calculations, the system is more appropriate to be implemented on a specialized hardware.; The objective of this research work is to design, simulate, and synthesize a high speed fuzzy processor on a field programmable gate array (FPGA). The main design requirements shall be high speed, flexibility, reconfigurability, and low resource utilization of the target technology used for implementation. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)