Instrumentation applications of multibit random-data representation

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 175-181

  Petriu, Emil M ^a   Zhao, Lichen ^a   Das, Sunil R ^a   Groza, Voicu Z ^a   Cornell, Aurel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b 3361 TMCB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

MODULAR DESIGNS;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 0037308915     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.809492     Document Type: Article

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