On 6/4/2006 at 10:13 PM ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
A good undersanding of the analogue side of
'digital eleectronics'
includes, therefore, knowing when you need to terminate a signal, and how
accurate that teminator needs to be.
In a sense, hobbyists have been spoiled by the simplicity of connecting up
TTL (and before that, RTL and DTL). Had the industry standardized on ECL,
things would be quite a bit more interesting on the design end.
Cheers,
Chuck