Digital circuits and analog devices

[drlegendre .]

You don't really find many examples of discrete states, anywhere in the
natural world. Just not a whole lot of quantization out there, unless you
reduce to the subatomic level - and while you'll find discrete states
(quanta) there, they are by nature indeterminate.

Have to admit, we did get an interesting universe.



On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 8:34 PM, W2HX <w2hx at w2hx.com> wrote:

> Not only are they made of analog devices, but at the speeds things have
> been running at for the last 20 (maybe 30) years, they often behave like
> analog devices. Things like transmission line theory, crosstalk,
> oscillation, etc are all important design considerations.
> Eugene
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Noel
> Chiappa
> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 9:31 PM
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Cc: jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: Digital circuits and analog devices
>
> So I have this memory of a set of law promulgated by an engineer at DEC,
> one of which was something to the effect that 'all digital circuits are
> made out of analog devices'. However, my memory doesn't recall where I saw
> this, and my Google-fu is not strong enough to turn it up. Can anyone help?
>
>         Noel
>