Title :
An adjustable threshold MOSFET
Author :
Tsay, Suan-Wei ; Newcomb, Robert W.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA
Abstract :
A circuit which is equivalent to a voltage adjustable threshold MOSFET is presented. This adjustable threshold MOSFET uses the voltage adder from a neural arithmetic unit which is based on the describing equations of the neural chemical pools that occur in biological neurons. The threshold voltage of this adjustable threshold MOSFET is linearly modulated by an external control voltage. The circuits used here are all composed of MOS transistors and no resistor is used to convert current to voltage. Thus, these circuits will only occupy a small die area and are very suitable for VLSI realizations
Keywords :
MOS integrated circuits; VLSI; insulated gate field effect transistors; neural nets; MOS transistors; MOSFET; VLSI realizations; adaptive weight; linearly modulated; neural arithmetic unit; voltage adder; voltage adjustable threshold; Adders; Arithmetic; Chemicals; Equations; MOSFET circuits; Neurons; Resistors; Threshold voltage; Very large scale integration; Voltage control;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1992. ISCAS '92. Proceedings., 1992 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0593-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.1992.230274
