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A very promising approach for implementing electronic neural nctworks is to design and fabricate special-purpose VLSI chips, bccause the software execution of simulated annealing on convcntional computer is very slow. In this paper, a hardware realization of simulated annealing is described using the analogy betwcen the tcmpcrature in the Boltzmann machine and the amplificr gain in the electronic neural circuits. Detailed requiremcnts for the annealing schedule are analyzed. Experimental results on the transfcr characteristics of 4-bit Hopfield neuralbascd analog-to-digital converter with the simulated annealing technique are prcscnted.

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