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
- 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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