Electronics Letters · 1989 · 79 citations · 0 references
EngineeringComputer EngineeringElectrical EngineeringMicroelectronicsNeural EngineeringSystem-on-chip DesignDigital Integrated Circuit DesignDigital Integrated CircuitsIntegrated Circuit DevicesNeural CircuitsNeural NetworksVery-large-scale Integration LayoutActivation FunctionsCircuit ComputationLinear ApproximationNeural Circuit ArchitectureNeural Network ModelingPiecewise-linear Circuit AnalysisVery-large-scale Integration (Vlsi) DesignVlsi Implementation
A piecewise linear approximation to the sigmoidal neuron activation function is proposed, which maps compactly into a digital integrated circuit realisation.