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Building a brain may mean going analog

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Analog circuits consume less power per operation than CMOS technologies, and so should prove more efficient.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 7
        July 2017
        89 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/3116227
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