Title:
Adaptive Analog VLSI Signal Processing and Neural Networks

dc.contributor.advisor Hasler, Jennifer
dc.contributor.author Dugger, Jeffery Don en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Anderson, David
dc.contributor.committeeMember Dieter Jaeger
dc.contributor.committeeMember Mark Clements
dc.contributor.committeeMember Steve Deweerth
dc.contributor.department Electrical and Computer Engineering en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2005-03-04T16:43:58Z
dc.date.available 2005-03-04T16:43:58Z
dc.date.issued 2003-11-26 en_US
dc.description.abstract Research presented in this thesis provides a substantial leap from the study of interesting device physics to fully adaptive analog networks and lays a solid foundation for future development of large-scale, compact, low-power adaptive parallel analog computation systems. The investigation described here started with observation of this potential learning capability and led to the first derivation and characterization of the floating-gate pFET correlation learning rule. Starting with two synapses sharing the same error signal, we progressed from phase correlation experiments through correlation experiments involving harmonically related sinusoids, culminating in learning the Fourier series coefficients of a square wave cite{kn:Dugger2000}. Extending these earlier two-input node experiments to the general case of correlated inputs required dealing with weight decay naturally exhibited by the learning rule. We introduced a source-follower floating-gate synapse as an improvement over our earlier source-degenerated floating-gate synapse in terms of relative weight decay cite{kn:Dugger2004}. A larger network of source-follower floating-gate synapses was fabricated and an FPGA-controlled testboard was designed and built. This more sophisticated system provides an excellent framework for exploring applications to multi-input, multi-node adaptive filtering applications. Adaptive channel equalization provided a practical test-case illustrating the use of these adaptive systems in solving real-world problems. The same system could easily be applied to noise and echo cancellation in communication systems and system identification tasks in optimal control problems. We envision the commercialization of these adaptive analog VLSI systems as practical products within a couple of years. en_US
dc.description.degree Ph.D. en_US
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dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/5294
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Floating gate transistors en_US
dc.subject Neural networks
dc.subject Adaptive filters
dc.subject VLSI
dc.subject Analog electronics
dc.title Adaptive Analog VLSI Signal Processing and Neural Networks en_US
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dc.type.genre Dissertation
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local.contributor.advisor Hasler, Jennifer
local.contributor.corporatename School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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