“…The hardware cost reduction coefficient for some fuzzy inference systems (used as benchmarks) is presented in Table 1. The knowledge bases of the systems describe respectively fuzzy controllers (denominated as 1, 3, 4) (Baturone et al, 1997;Kim and Cho, 1999;Yager and Filev, 1994), an ENOR gate (denominated as 2) (Lee et al, 1995), a truck park controller (denominated as 5) (Rutkowska et al, 1997;Kim, 2000), a temperature controller of a heated air-stream (denominated as 6) (Ollero and Garcia-Cerezo, 1989), a fuzzy controller for stabilization of an inverted pendulum (denominated as 7) (Yamakawa, 1989), a fan controller (denominated as 8) (Hurdon, 1993) and a fuzzy system for identification of nonlinear systems (denominated as 9) (Rovatti et al, 1995). For the primary decomposition technique (p = 1), the hardware cost is lower if the system is built as a hierarchical structure, and it is the highest for FATI systems.…”