28 Feb
2017
28 Feb
'17
3:05 p.m.
From: Tony Duell
I fail to see how anyone can be a good digital
designer and not
understand analogue electronics.
It's easy! As long as your devices are being run in a domain where their
behaviour is purely, well, digital, one can get away with it! :-)
I'm a perfect case in point!
I seem to have some bizarre brain dysfunction where I have a very hard time
understanding even the simplest analog circuits. You, or someone like Brent
Hilpert (whose explanation of core memory drivers I still remember :-) can
explain something with sufficient clarity for me to 'get' it, but I can
almost never work it out on my own.
However, I've designed a number of digital devices, at least one of which
became a product!
Noel