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Analog and Digital Designs

May 13th, 2006

Analog is not old fashioned. I think analog is interesting and fun. If you are into electrical technical knowledge, then understanding analog design is a good point to start. In today’s world, analog and digital designs comes hand-in-hand. So to be good in both is a plus. I personally have the passion for the digital designs a lot more than the analog designs. One thing to know is that in real world, signals are in analog then digitized into today’s digital trends. The analog signals is known to be continuous and we could take these continuous signals and convert them into discrete digital signals. Digital design techniques are easier to design, data storage is much easier, much accurate, less noise and can be easily fabricated into Integrated Circuit chips. Analog design has always been a much involved process in compare to the digital design. In analog designs there are extra specifications to be taken care of such as the gain, bandwidth, signal distortion and noise. It tooks longer to master analog domain than the digital domain. More in-depth about analog designs which includes analog IC designs and can be easily simulated using Computer Aided Design software such as SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis). Also, more in-depth about digital designs which means TTL Gates (Transistor-Transistor Logic Gates), flip-flops, processor, CMOS, etc.

Filed under: Analog Design, Digital Design