Analog neural network implementation for a real-time surface classification application

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1413-1421

  Gatet, Laurent ^a   Tap Béteille, Hélène ^a   Lescure, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Analog multiplier; Analog processing circuits; CMOS analog integrated circuits; Laser applications; Multilayer perceptron; Neural network applications; Neural network hardware

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LIGHTNING; MILITARY OPERATIONS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; RANGE FINDERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANALOG INPUT SIGNALS; ANALOG NEURAL NETWORK (NN); ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL; HIDDEN LAYERS; MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON (MLP); OUTPUT VOLTAGES; POWER CONSUMPTION (CE); SURFACE CLASSIFICATION; VOLTAGE SUPPLY;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 47849093494     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.920713     Document Type: Article

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