The distinction between analog and digital signals is very simple, but it can still be a challenge to wrap one's mind around the concepts that define the two systems. Just when you think you've got it ...

Oscilloscopes provide critical signal visibility for debugging, testing, and ensuring that electronic systems match developers’ imaginations. Specifying when the oscilloscope captures information ...

My first job out of college was testing and debugging control loading systems on flight simulators for 747 and the “new” 767 airliners. In the late 1970s, the control loop that simulated the feel of ...

The argument for analog being better than digital goes something like this. Digital utilizes sampling so no matter how many times a second a sample is taken, there are always those spaces between ...

As much as it might be easy to feel like the connection between car and driver is a spiritual one, some hard data needs to be communicated between the two. Gauges do that work by providing information ...

Digital power is quite the buzz these days. Let's take a moment to examine the term. The simplest definition of “digital power” is the control of a switching regulator via a digital interface. This ...

When the phrase ‘analog to digital conversion’ is used, we tend to assume that the conversion is taking something continuous like sound or video and making it discrete so that digital computers can ...

Analog vs digital watches: In today’s fast-moving world, telling time accurately is very important for work, travel, and daily life. Many people still debate whether an analog watch or a digital watch ...

Differences between digital and analog triggering. Advantages of digital triggering. How to tell what type of triggering is used by an oscilloscope. An oscilloscope’s trigger function, which ...

This is just a general question. I know, obviously, that there are RS-232 "serial ports" and IEEE 1284/Centronix ports "parallel ports," and that these are "digital" connections. Then you have things ...

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss what’s changing in analog design with the shift toward heterogeneous integration and more safety- and mission-critical applications with Mo Faisal, ...