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New analog circuits could impact consumer electronics
02-16-2007 · EurekAlert!Advances in digital electronic circuits have prompted the boost in functions and ever- smaller size of such popular consumer goods as digital cameras. But the same cannot be said of the older analog circuits in the same devices, which process natural sights and sounds in the real world. They are draining power and causing other bottlenecks in improved consumer electronic devices. Now MIT engineers have devised new analog circuits they hope will change that.
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