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Original Articles

An evaluation of the extrinsic cells number in a memory array using cross-correlation products and deconvolution: an instance of a microelectronics experimental inverse problem

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Pages 1043-1062 | Received 29 Oct 2010, Accepted 26 Mar 2011, Published online: 03 Jun 2011

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