Soft-core implementation for centre of Slice Area Average defuzzifier

Fuzzy systems are broad used for the decision making task given its capability of extract knowledge from an expert and translate it into rules that define described system. Implementations are made according to speed requirements of the problem, for the case of critical real time systems hardware is the best choice. One important issue on fuzzy systems is the final step, defuzzifier, when computed fuzzy data is turned into crisp data. There are many different defuzzifier methods from which most used for hardware purposes are Center Of Gravity and Mean Of Maxima. This work presents hardware implementation for Center of Slice Area Average defuzzifier, for digital soft-core implementation; its main advantages are reduction on resource consumption and reduction of calculation time without loss of accuracy.