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Title: Ultra-Low-Power and Compact-Area Analog Audio Feature Extraction Based on Time-Mode Analog Filterbank Interpolation and Time-Mode Analog Rectification
Award ID(s):
1704899
NSF-PAR ID:
10465356
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Volume:
58
Issue:
4
ISSN:
0018-9200
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1025 to 1036
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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