Abstract
Conference Title: 2018 IEEE 18th International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO) Conference Start Date: 2018, July 23 Conference End Date: 2018, July 26 Conference Location: Cork, Ireland Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) is a feedforward artificial neural network developed for solving classification problems. This paper proposes a hardware implementation of an approximated PNN (APNN) algorithm in which the conventional exponential function of the PNN is replaced with gated threshold logic. The weights of the PNN are approximated using a memristive crossbar architecture. In particular, the proposed algorithm performs normalization of the training weights, and quantization into 16 levels which significantly reduces the complexity of the circuit.