Development of Reconfigurable Nonlinear Circuits for Neural Networks

ii iii To my Family … iv ACKNOWLEDGMENT All praise and glory is to almighty Allah who gave me the courage and patience to carry out this work, and peace and blessings of Allah be upon his last prophet Muhammad. Acknowledgement is due to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals for supporting this research. I am grateful to the electrical engineering department, faculty and staff, for all means of support that it offered to me. I would like to express my deep gratitude to my thesis advisor Prof. Muhammad Taher Abuelma'atti for his unconditional help, his encouragement and his valuable suggestions during the preparation of my thesis. I would also like to thank my committee members Dr. Hussain Al-Zaher and Dr. Saad Al-Shahrani for spending their time reading my thesis and for their constructive suggestions and comments. Furthermore, I would like to express my deep and warm gratitude to my dear parents for their warm support through all these years, for the religious and scientific foundation they gave me and for the prayers they made for me. May Allah bless them and give them a long life with all good deeds. I would like also to express my deep and warm gratitude to my dear wife for her support and patience through my study. At the end of this acknowledgement, I would like to express my appreciation to my colleagues and to people who gave me support in KFUPM and to all my friends. Table 1-1 Summary of the piecewise-linear functions circuits……………………...29 Table 1-2 Summary of the Sigmoid function circuits……………………………….30 Table 1-3 Summary of the Radial Basis function circuits…..……………………….31