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Much has been written regarding the merits and demerits of analog and digital techniques for the integration of neural networks. Proponents of both approaches are often scathing about alternatives, and blind to the shortcomings of their own work. In this chapter, we will attempt to give an honest account of a body of work that builds VLSI neural circuitry using digital voltage and current pulses to carry information and perform computation, in a manner similar to the biological nervous system. Although this parallel did not, and does not, form the motivation for the use of this technique, it is an interesting aspect of the work, and was in part its inspiration.
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Murray, A.F. et al. (1991). Pulsed Silicon Neural Networks - Following the Biological Leader -. In: Ramacher, U., Rückert, U. (eds) VLSI Design of Neural Networks. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 122. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3994-0_6
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