Makes sense as opposed to "abstract." With the constant encoding and decoding that has to be done when things are going in an out of processors and storage (or sensors), digital processes are always in some sense simulations.
ANN is taken.
I mean LoRA was taken too before LoRA became a thing
I don't mean globally, LoRA are at least in different domains. Artificial Neural Networks and Physical Neural Networks are both machine learning, discussion referring to both is highly probable, and the former far more established so it calling it an Analog Neural Network would never last long.
You can't call analog NN an AnalNN either, as then the "brain-gut axis" people will throw a fit.
Well, this is particularly frustrating because PNN is already taken as well, by the (imo) much more novel idea of Physics Informed Neural Networks (aka PINNs or PNNs).
Why this isn't called Hardware Neural Nets is beyond me.