A Fully Programmable Analog CMOS Rational-Powered Membership Function Generator with Continuously Adjustable High Precision Parameters.

This paper presents a novel structure for implementing rational-powered membership functions (RPMFs), which are the extended forms of triangular/trapezoidal membership functions and those functions which are generated by applying linguistic hedges. The hardware realization of an RPMF consists of a triangular membership function generator circuit followed by a rational-powered generator module (RPGM). A novel fully programmable compact triangular/trapezoidal/s-shaped/z-shaped membership function generator with the ability to continuously change parameters is presented which is compatible with the proposed RPGM. A new method is introduced to implement the RPGM based on the approximation of the function ' x' by the functions square and square-rooter which are simply implemented in a current-mode analog approach based on the translinear principle, which leads to a design that is simple, and has high accuracy and less hardware usage, with a resulting lower chip area and lower power consumption. The designed circuit was simulated by an HSPICE simulator with level 49 parameters (BSIM3v3), and the simulation results show that the maximum power consumption of the RPGM is 800 μW, while the maximum RMS error is 1.25 %. Finally, layouts of the circuits prepared using Cadence software are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]