Synthesis of feedforward neural analogue-digital convertors

Several neural-based analogue-digital convertors (ADCs) have been proposed in the technical literature since Hopfield´s contribution. The paper focuses on feedforward neural schemes. A review of three synthesis techniques for deriving a feedforward neural ADC is presented. The relationship between the resulting architectures and their conventional counterpart is examined. Finally, a comparison is made of the different neural schemes from an architectural viewpoint