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Several soft intellectual property (IP) core implementations of decision trees (axis-parallel, oblique and nonlinear) based on the concept of universal node (UN) and sequence of UNs are presented. Proposed IP cores are suitable for implementation in both field programmable gate arrays and application specific integrated circuits. Developed IP cores can be easily customised in order to fit a wide variety of application requirements, fulfilling their role as general purpose building blocks for SoC designs. Experimental results obtained on 23 data sets of standard UCI machine learning repository database suggest that the proposed architecture based on the sequence of UNs requires on average 56% less hardware resources compared with previously proposed architectures, having the same throughput.
Inspec keywords: industrial property; application specific integrated circuits; field programmable gate arrays; decision trees; system-on-chip
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Subjects: Logic circuits; Microprocessors and microcomputers; Microprocessor chips; Combinatorial mathematics; Combinatorial mathematics; Logic and switching circuits