The distinction between analog and digital signals is very simple, but it can still be a challenge to wrap one's mind around the concepts that define the two systems. Just when you think you've got it ...

Microsoft Research has developed an analog optical computer (AOC) that uses light to solve complex problems.

A computer that uses light rather than digital switches ... study says Because the AOC doesn't convert the analog signals to digital ones during the calculations, the AOC saves energy and overcomes ...

Analog computers, computing systems that represent data as continuous physical quantities, such as voltage, frequency or ...

In the first of three parts, Andy hypothesizes that the K2-W Analog Computer Op Amp’s design has some unrevealed mad science in its input-stage design. 1. K2-W Op Amp schematic from Bob Pease’s ...

Imagine you’re a young engineer whose boss drops by one morning with a sheaf of complicated fluid dynamics equations. “We need you to design a system to solve these equations for the latest fighter ...