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Article: Pour your own programmable analog: pouring analog-circuit descriptions through an interface sounds like a versatile way to form functional blocks. But before I hang up my soldering iron, I wanted to know how well they work in practice. (hands-on project)(Cover Story).
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- June 12, 2003
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MOST INDUSTRIES have their philosophical tugs of war, and if only for sheer entertainment value, perhaps it is fortunate that ours has more than its share. Throughout our industry's history and at nearly every turn, engineers and technologists with strong convictions have alternatively touted the superiority of tubes or transistors, discrete or integrated circuits, reduced or complex processor instruction sets, Harvard or yon Neumann processor architectures, CMOS or bipolar circuits, systems on chips or functional segmentation, and certainly not least among these topics, though broad they may be, analog or digital circuits. Though the tensions have fueled many a lively ...