A Micropower Current-Mode Euclidean Distance Calculator for Pattern Recognition

Simd Optimization of Euclidean Distance Transforms for Pattern Recognition

This paper describes a SIMD optimization method for computing different Euclidean distance algorithms. Distance transforms have been widely applied to image analysis and pattern recognition problems. The proposed approach is based on the inherent fine and medium-grain parallelism of considered distance algorithms and has been implemented using Intel Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE), intrinsics a...

A floating gate CMOS Euclidean distance calculator and its application to hand-written digit recognition

In this work, a Euclidean distance calculator is presented. The circuit comprises of simple computing blocks, their basic element being the floating gate MOSFET (FGMOS), exploiting the merits of this device in designing circuits with low-voltage and rail-to-rail operation. Therefore the overall circuit has the characteristics of modularity, low-voltage and rail-to-rail operation under a single ...

A Micropower Multi Decade Dynamic Range Current-Mode True RMS-to-DC Converter

A log-domain current-mode true RMS-to-DC converter based on a novel synthesis of a simplified current-mode low pass filter and a two-quadrant squarer/divider is presented. The circuit employs floating gate MOS (FG-MOS) transistors operating in weak inversion region. The converter features low power(

Micropower Fuzzy Linguistic-Hedges Circuit in Current-Mode Approach

In this paper, based on a novel synthesis, a set of new simplified circuit design to implement the linguistic-hedge operations for adjusting the fuzzy membership function set is presented. The circuits work in current-mode and employ floating-gate MOS (FGMOS) transistors that operate in weak inversion region. Compared to the other proposed circuits, these circuits feature severe reduction of th...

a micropower multi decade dynamic range current-mode true rms-to-dc converter

a log-domain current-mode true rms-to-dc converter based on a novel synthesis of a simplified current-mode low pass filter and a two-quadrant squarer/divider is presented. the circuit employs floating gate mos (fg-mos) transistors operating in weak inversion region. the converter features low power(<1.5uw), low supply voltage (0.9v), two quadrant input current, immunity from body effect, low ci...

The dissimilarity representation for non-Euclidean pattern recognition, a tutorial