Delay-dependent asymptotic stability for neural networks with distributed delays

In this paper, dynamical behavior of a class of neural networks with distributed delays is studied by employing suitable Lyapunov functionals, delay-dependent criteria to ensure local and global asymptotic stability of the equilibrium of the neural networks. Our results are applied to classical Hopfield neural networks with distributed delays and some novel asymptotic stability criteria are also derived. The obtained conditions are shown to be less conservative and restrictive than those reported in the known literature.