%0 Journal Article %T A Multi-Layer Perceptron SoC for Smart Devices %J Computer Science and Engineering %@ 2163-1492 %D 2012 %I %R 10.5923/j.computer.20120207.02 %X This paper presents a programmable System-On-a-chip for various embedded applications that need Neural Network computations. The system is fully implemented into Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based prototyping platform. The SoC consists of an embedded processor core and a reconfigurable hardware accelerator for neural computations. The performance of the SoC is evaluated using real image processing applications, such as optical character recognition (OCR) system. %K SoC %K FPGA %K MLP %K Hardware Accelerator %U http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.computer.20120207.02.html