A New Low Power Mixed-Signal Digital Voltage Mode CMOS Fuzzy Logic Controller

In this paper, the design and simulation results of a general-purpose fuzzy logic controller, 5-bit digital inputs, and analog output are presented. Based on a new strategy, it provides simplicity and high speed from the analog prospective and a total digital system advantages with unchanged digital system properties. A novel and reliable structure with respect to other topologies for the fuzzifier section is designed which enhances the accuracy and the velocity. In order to detect maximum, minimum, and mixed mode (both minimum and maximum) of the input voltages at the same time, an inference engine consisting of a min and max circuit is an addition. The benchmark for the defuzzifier in the proposed design is simplicity and through a simple approach, and the center of area is attributed to the defuzzifier. The proposed controller circuit consists of two inputs, nine rules and one output designed in TSMC standard 0.18 µm CMOS technology and simulated with MATLAB systematically. The total controller circuit is simulated with HSPICE simulator (BSIM3v3 parameters), and the layouts were extracted with Cadence Virtuoso v 5.1. The whole chip area is less than 0.7 mm2, inference speed of the controller is about 39.2 MFLIPS (fuzzy logic inference per second), and the average power consumption is 2.61 mW.