O título alude ao livro de Antonio Candido, Teresina etc. Rio Janeiro: Ouro sobre azul, 2007.
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This paper presents a Verilog model of an artificial neural network for Arabic character recognition. A neural network by nature is a non-linear system that presents some unusual challenges when realized in digital domain. A main feature of our proposed model is that it does not require hardware-intensive resources, such as dividers and multipliers. A character recognition accuracy of 80.3% was...

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