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Post: Reality is analog, digital is illusion

Henry Cobb

Reality is analog, digital is illusion 

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Boffin

Yes, it is an analog process.

All computer circuit elements are analog.

The point is to drive it to the rails so that you flood out the analog to either all on or all off and then you read the "glass" as being more that half empty or more than half full.

This gets to be more painful as the circuit elements get smaller and are driven faster.

When will we see the first DSP used as a memory bus reader? (Needed because of analog distortion on the wire trace between the CPU and the memory chips. It's like the change from T-1 to DSL for Internet access.)