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13.7 Conclusions
Two design strategies for the automatic synthesis of embedded fuzzy controllers have
been described in this chapter. They demonstrate that the availability of a design flow,
supported by the use of parameterized cell libraries and hardware synthesis tools
provided by the Xfuzzy environment, considerably speeds up the hardware imple-
mentation of fuzzy systems, facilitating the exploration of the design space for a
given application. One of the design strategies is focused to hardware implementa-
tions of fuzzy systems onXilinx's FPGAs, while the other one provides synthesizable
VHDL code for ASICs and FPGAs. As demonstrated by the obtained results, the
VHDL-based option usually allows achieving better results in terms of performance
(approximation capability and/or resource consumption), whereas the main advan-
tage of the XSG approach is reduction in time required to develop the controllers.
Acknowledgments This work was partially funded by Spanish Ministry of Economy and Com-
petitiveness under the Project TEC2011-24319 and by Junta de Andalucía under the Project
P08-TIC-03674 (both with support from FEDER). The authors would like to thank all the peo-
ple who have contributed to the development of Xfuzzy . In special to Jesús Izquierdo and Lidia
L. Delgado, for their contribution to the versions of xfsg and xfvhdl used in this work.
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