This paper is concerned with the problem of
observer design for switched recurrent neural networks with
time-varying delay. The attention is focused on designing the fullorder
observers that guarantee the global exponential stability
of the error dynamic system. Based on the average dwell
time approach and the free-weighting matrix technique, delaydependent
sufficient conditions are developed for the solvability
of such problem and formulated as linear matrix inequalities.
The error-state decay estimate is also given. Then, the stability
analysis problem for the switched recurrent neural networks can
be covered as a special case of our results. Finally, four illustrative
examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness and the
superiority of the proposed methods.