Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7 (NIPS 1994)
Gert Cauwenberghs, Volnei Pedroni
We present an analog VLSI chip for parallel analog vector quantiza(cid:173) tion. The MOSIS 2.0 J..Lm double-poly CMOS Tiny chip contains an array of 16 x 16 charge-based distance estimation cells, implementing a mean absolute difference (MAD) metric operating on a 16-input analog vector field and 16 analog template vectors. The distance cell includ(cid:173) ing dynamic template storage measures 60 x 78 J..Lm2 • Additionally, the chip features a winner-take-all (WTA) output circuit of linear com(cid:173) plexity, with global positive feedback for fast and decisive settling of a single winner output. Experimental results on the complete 16 x 16 VQ system demonstrate correct operation with 34 dB analog input dynamic range and 3 J..Lsec cycle time at 0.7 mW power dissipation.