Today it seems that everything electronic is digital—a reasonable assumption considering it’s hard to find a turnable knob anywhere and values are displayed in digits everywhere. The underlying ...

An analog computer is a system that provides information in continuous form. These computers can only represent physical quantities such as pressure, weight, voltage pressure, speed, and more.

If you’ve followed my blogs and Twitter posts over the past decades you may already understand this, hopefully remember all the times I’ve explained it. This is after all a forecasting site and a ...

Back in the day where the microprocessor was our standard building block, we tended to concentrate on computation and processing of data and not so much on I/O. Simply put there were a lot of things ...

Key differences in analog vs. digital features. Applications where each type of multimeter is best suited. Multimeters, from small handheld to more sophisticated benchtop models, are indispensable ...

This white paper explains the general usage of the MRAA APIs that can greatly simplify working with various types of devices, such as: Analog input Digital input and output Pulse width modulation (PWM ...

The usual method of bringing analog inputs into a microprocessor is to use an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Here are some tips for selecting such a part and calibrating it to fit your needs. In ...

The digital revolution promised efficiency, innovation and happiness. But David Sax says it's not delivering. His new book is The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter. In it he makes his ...