Re: Hyperbolic tangent transfer function

On Tue, 10 May 2005 13:05:57 -0400, John Popelish <jpopelish@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Jim Thompson wrote:
>
>> Without checking my math, I do believe that an ordinary bipolar
>> differential pair has TANH for a transfer function.
>>
>> Pretty small range, but can be built out. Look into some of Barrie
>> Gilbert's paper's.
>
>I would like very much to read Gilbert's papers, but I keep running
>into IEEE requests for my membership number (which I don't have).

It is now known that the tanh function isn't quite the right function.

See: http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/maplearticles/f969.html

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