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The basic concept of using a standard MOS transistor as a pseudoconductance is explained. It offers the possibility to implement any network of linear resistors by means of transistors only, and to control the value of each of these pseudo-resistors by a voltage or a current. Applications to linear attenuation, moment computation, diffusion networks, fuzzy logic computation and emulation of physical media are described. Several examples are given, including D/A conversion, elementary shape recognition, path-finding, place coding and emulation of biological organs such as the retina and th cochlea.e
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Vittoz, E.A. (1997). Pseudo-resistive networks and their applications to analog collective computation. In: Gerstner, W., Germond, A., Hasler, M., Nicoud, JD. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks — ICANN'97. ICANN 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1327. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0020305
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