How to input your own programmable analog circuit[Copy link]
Most industries have their share of philosophical debates, and if only for pure entertainment value, it's probably a good thing that ours has more of them. Throughout our industry's history, at nearly every turn, engineers and technologists with strong convictions have been touting the superiority of one or the other: vacuum tubes or transistors, discrete components or integrated circuits, reduced processor instruction sets or complex processor instruction sets, Harvard processor architecture or von Neumann processor architecture, CMOS circuits or bipolar circuits, monolithic systems or split functionality, and analog circuits or digital circuits. Of course, analog or digital circuits, as broad as they may be, are part of these topics. While such heated debates have inspired one lively panel after another, these little debates often suffer from the same conceptual flaw: arguing about implementation technology before arguing about the goal.