Synthesis of a class of artificial neural network using a CMOS current mode building block approach
David Grant, John T. Taylor, P.K. Houselander · 1991
An analogue current mode design methodology is presented for the implementation of binary associative memories. Thus by using the Hamming feedfoward network as an example of a binary associative memory, and efficiently mapping it into two CMOS-VLSI building block configurations a prototype ANN is developed. The IC building blocks utilizes the characteristics of the subthreshold region and converge to a classification in 'one pass' requiring no feedback; thereby resulting in an analogue network with the desirable features of high integration, low circuit complexity, and low power dissipation. >