SparkFun Electronics Commentsurn:uuid:214d0e4e-f1b1-d287-ce26-ac5b4c9f82492024-03-29T07:03:30-06:00SparkFun ElectronicsPete-O on According to Pete: Digital CircuitsPete-Ourn:uuid:e3fd1af1-164e-3299-5961-33cc222dac6a2018-10-22T06:52:29-06:00<p>As posted on the Youtube page: The winner of the Digilent Analog Discovery 2 USB Oscilloscope from ATP: Digital Circuits is Tanishq Jaiswal for his suggestion of a flash ADC! Thanks everybody for playing!</p>
exeng on According to Pete: Digital Circuitsexengurn:uuid:76205634-f527-574f-3648-adbd9eb59c052018-10-20T11:54:56-06:00<p>And the winner is?????</p>
Customer #134773 on According to Pete: Digital CircuitsCustomer #134773urn:uuid:02334283-74b6-9bb7-2e22-ee080891280c2018-10-02T16:02:43-06:00<p>Well, if you ever do "Pile it higher and Deeper", get a white lab coat embroidered with "Dr. Doktor" and have a stethescope handy, and wear them whenever you have reason to go to a hospital! ;-)</p>
Pete-O on According to Pete: Digital CircuitsPete-Ourn:uuid:8287d9e0-489e-07fe-4752-1852d305cfe72018-10-02T07:46:18-06:00<p>Thanks, and that's quite a story, sorry to hear all of that. But I'm glad that you're hanging with us! And if I had a doctorate, I'd make everyone call me "Doctor Dokter". Even my mom.</p>
Customer #134773 on According to Pete: Digital CircuitsCustomer #134773urn:uuid:d7dd7acd-9669-b8b0-28bd-3ed696ffc9a22018-10-01T13:48:34-06:00<p>One other thing: I can certainly sympathize with your "bent wing"! I have <em>far, far</em> too much experience in that area. I have <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteogenesis_imperfecta" rel="nofollow">osteogenesis imperfecta</a> (a.k.a. "brittle bone disease"). Between the ages of 2 and 15 I had about 45 broken legs. (I sometimes joke that I've had more broken legs than most football <em>teams</em>!). Kids with OI today at least have home computers and the Internet! (And remote controls are standard on TVs, unlike when I was a kid and they were a rarity -- not good when you can't get out of bed or reach the TV from the bed!)<p>On the bright side, I'm glad you went into electronics rather than medicne. I can just hear them paging "Doctor Doktor"! ;-)</p></p>
Customer #134773 on According to Pete: Digital CircuitsCustomer #134773urn:uuid:abb1be51-a90b-306c-949c-0a1c7be7a2122018-10-01T13:36:18-06:00<p>Thanks! Guess I'll have to sign up for a YouTube account so I can post an entry...</p>
Customer #134773 on According to Pete: Digital CircuitsCustomer #134773urn:uuid:f4b40125-89a8-d28d-bf2c-7d605da98e262018-10-01T13:29:32-06:00<blockquote>
<p>I originally wanted to specifically cover memory types. But I decided at some point that there wasn’t enough fun & juicy stuff to talk about there</p>
<p>Typical analog guy think... Well, sonny, I don't quite go back to the days of drum memory, but I <em>do</em> remember magnetic core memory, before "memory chips" were a "thing" and even before 7400 series was a "thing". (Senior moment -- I don't recall any part numbers for DTL, which was "current" [at least for non-military] when I first started playing in electronics.) Anyway. there's RAM, [mask programmed] ROM, [one-time programmable] PROM, [UV erasable] EPROM, EEPROM, Flash memory, and Ferroelectric RAM to name a few. Each has their advantages and disadvantages, and most are available in a variety of underlying technologies. (OK, these days ROM, PROM, and EPROM are rarely used. But still, you could talk a bit about how RAM, EEPROM, Flash, and FRAM work and why EEPROM and Flash have limited write cycle life making FRAM "interesting".)</p><p>One "interesting" use for EPROM or EEPROM is as a replacement for "random logic" circuits, assuming you don't need really high speed.</p><p>BTW, when you talked about digital being boring, I kept thinking about the days when there was only analog video. You wouldn't have gotten very far in making this video back then!</p></blockquote>
Pete-O on According to Pete: Digital CircuitsPete-Ourn:uuid:66eb9988-30be-4a0d-1f90-595415f3da0f2018-10-01T13:13:28-06:00<p>Of course! Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU8OrRnV2lE</p>
Customer #134773 on According to Pete: Digital CircuitsCustomer #134773urn:uuid:edc9c6d6-9152-b89f-52f0-732be46f257b2018-10-01T12:44:58-06:00<p>Since you expect folks to go to the YouTube post, how about putting a link of how to get there? (I'm sure that at least a few readers have only interacted with YouTube by clicking on the "go" button in the Blog...)</p>