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Whilst analoge has some area's in which is shines, the real technology that I'd love to be leaned upon more is synchronized circuits/CPU designs. Would enable
by Zenst 4y ago
Whilst analoge has some area's in which is shines, the real technology that I'd love to be leaned upon more is synchronized circuits/CPU designs. Would enable all the clock frequencies and save so much power utilisation as no need to have step clock frequency logic to bodge that workaround with asynchronized circuits as we have in our CPU's today.
Alas design tooling and skillsets hold this back, way easier to do an async design as well. FPGA's has an era (to some degree they still do) in which tooling held them back and whilst that has improved, highlights how software and hardware become intwined.
Which leads back to analog designs for problems, in which many cases the hardware is the software, so the whole time to develop is not just getting the hardware out the door, it is nailing the software per say as well at the same time. Then you are looking at hardware akin to an ASIC in which it is dedicated to the task it does and nothing else.
One thing though - the term BUG originated from the analog era in which an insect(aka bug) would become logged in the mechanism and cause errors, so a bug in a cog would change timmings or jam things up being one example.