12 Jun
2009
12 Jun
'09
2:24 p.m.
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Tony Duell<ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
As a computer engineer, I'm quite happy that while digital circuits
are made from analog parts, those analog parts can be reliably
abstracted as digital components. After that, it's all ones and zeros
:-)
Having designed individual transistors on silicon, the best part is
when you get some NAND/NOR/AND/OR/XOR/etc. parts built and can just go
> Digital
watch? =C2=A0I see no digits.
>
> -ethan
I see quite a few digits... binary digits.
Also, I'd be willing to bet quite a bit of money that there are
digital circuits in that watch, unless for some reason they lost their
minds and used an analog circuit to keep the time.
As Vonada said 'Digital circuits are made from analog parts'.
And as Professor Wilkes once told me 'A digital circuit is like a tame
animal. An analogue circuit is a wild aninmal. Every so often the digital
circuit goes back to the wild and behaves linearly'.
:-)
-tony
from there ;)
John
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