Digital Implementation of Artificial Neural Network for Function Approximation and Pressure Control Applications

Abstract

The soft computing algorithms are being nowadays used for various multi input multi output complicated non linear control applications. This paper presented the development and implementation of back propagation of multilayer perceptron architecture developed in FPGA using VHDL. The usage of the FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) for neural network implementation provides flexibility in programmable systems. For the neural network based instrument prototype in real time application. The conventional specific VLSI neural chip design suffers the limitation in time and cost. With low precision artificial neural network design, FPGA have higher speed and smaller size for real time application than the VLSI design. The challenges are finding an architecture that minimizes the hardware cost, maximizing the performance, accuracy. The goal of this work is to realize the hardware implementation of neural network using FPGA. Digital system architecture is presented using Very High Speed Integrated Circuits Hardware Description Language (VHDL)and is implemented in FPGA chip. MATLAB ANN programming and tools are used for training the ANN. The trained weights are stored in different RAM, and is implemented in FPGA. The design was tested on a FPGA demo board. Keywords- Backpropagation, field programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware implementation, multilayer perceptron, pressure sensor, Xilinx FPGA.