摘要 |
A threshold element enabling a logical operation with fewer transistors and easy design and setting of an element weight and a threshold value is provided. In a threshold element of the present invention, MIS (Metal Insulator Semiconductor) transistors each passing a drain current upon excitation corresponding to weight omegai of input Xi obtained from a logical expression Y=Sign(SIGMAomegaiXi-1) derived from Y=F(Xi) thereof are connected in parallel. A terminal for transmitting an input signal Xi corresponding to each of the transistors is connected to the gate electrode thereof. By this input signal, excitation of each of the transistors is controlled. An output voltage based on a sum of the drain currents from the transistors is compared with a threshold value by a comparing inverter, and a comparison result is output.
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