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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2001
Francesco Pappalardo, Catania, IT;
Biagio Giacalone, Catania, IT;
Carmelo Palano, Catania, IT;
STMicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, IT;
Abstract
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.