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From: savel@hoss.unl.edu (Bharat P. Savel)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Fuzzy Processors (was Re: 64-bit microprocessors)
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Date: 15 Aug 90 14:06:41 GMT
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In article <851@hls0.hls.oz> geoff@hls0.highland.oz.au (Geoff Bull) writes:
>Whats a fuzzy processor?
>
>I have heard of fuzzy logic but don't know much about it.
>
>How do you build a processor that calculates with "I'm quite sure"s ??


fuzzy processors (apparently) work on the same principle as fuzzylogic; on
'normal' processors the bottom line logic element is a flip-flop; in fuzzy
processor, i believe, the bottom-line-processor is a comparator; don't
know anything else; i have only the industrial Engg. point of view; not
the hardware specs; japan has got out a F.P. in the last 2 months
(Newsweek around 4-5 issues back) presently ther are limited only to ASIC
with the intention of getting into commercial processors;

-savel