12 Apr
2012
12 Apr
'12
11:35 a.m.
(Flippantly, that's also an explanation of why
digital has won: so
you no longer have to sit down with a slide rule to accomplish
something.)
Flippant reply : o, you have to sit down with a CAD system to accomplish
anything (or at least a computer running a cross-development system)
My expeireence is that analogue and digital design are about equally
hard, but in different ways. Some people take to one, some to the other.
Yo ucan do simple digital design (a handful of gates and flip-flops) in
your head. You can do simple analogue design in much the same way. When
you start making complex state machines, or using microcotnrollers,
prgrammable logic devices, analogue circuits dring 'nasty'' loads (like a
chopper transsformer), or have many frequnce-ydependant analogue feedback
loops, then you start neediong to use a calculator or a computer.
-tony