Stmicroelectronics S.r.l.

Carmelo Marcello Palano

Francesco Pappalardo

Biagio Giacalone

Francesca Grande

Claudio Luzzi

For encoded membership functions used to identify atomic conditions defining antecedents of fuzzy inferences, and also for determining operands of the antecedents, corresponding stores are configured to store already available values of these encoded membership functions and of the operands. At the time of identification of a new value for the quantities, a check is made to see whether this value is already present in the corresponding store. If the outcome of this check is positive for encoded membership functions, pointers by which the encoded fuzzy inferences point to these functions is changed, so that the pointers are redirected towards the membership functions which are already stored. For operands of the antecedents, the check of the corresponding back-up store is carried out preferably based on the corresponding calculation values, the calculation of a new operand being disabled when the corresponding calculation parameters are already present in the corresponding back-up store.

Method for processing fuzzy inferences and corresponding processing structure

A codifying and storing method for membership functions representing a membership degree of fuzzy variables defined within a universe of discourse which is discretized into a finite number of points is provided. The membership functions are quantized into a finite number of levels corresponding to a finite number of membership degrees and are stored by means of a characteristic value of each sub-set of values of fuzzy variables having for their image the same value of the membership degree corresponding to one of said levels. Also provided is a method for calculating the value of the membership degree of a fuzzy variable defined within a universe of discourse discretized into a finite number of points with reference to a membership function thereof, as well as to a circuit for calculating the membership degree of a fuzzy variable with reference to a membership function thereof.

Coding and memorizing method for fuzzy logic membership functions and corresponding method and circuit architecture for calculating the membership degree

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