Hardware Realization of Nonlinear Activation Functions for NN-based Optical Equalizers

05/16/2023
by   Sasipim Srivallapanondh, et al.
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To reduce the complexity of the hardware implementation of neural network-based optical channel equalizers, we demonstrate that the performance of the biLSTM equalizer with approximated activation functions is close to that of the original model.

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