What are Analog Chips?
Unlike digital chips that can only differentiate between on and off signals, analog chips process gradations. In practical terms, digital chips are the best at manipulating or storing data bits as ones or zeros, but analog chips can read and process waveforms such as speech, music and video. Hence analog chips create a bridge to the digital world of storage and manipulation. Digital cameras, cell phones, Internet telephony, and downloading or uploading Internet audio, video or image files all involve analog technology. The typed word hello is simple for a digital chip to understand, but only analog chips can understand the spoken word. By now most of us know that DVD and CD-ROM storage is digital. So how does this analog information get placed on digital media? Isn’t this a contradiction? The answer is that analog chips are used as translators to bridge the gaps into and out of the digital world. Analog chips convert waveforms into digital data, then reassemble the data back into wave
Unlike digital chips that can only differentiate between on and off signals, analog chips process gradations. In practical terms, digital chips are the best at manipulating or storing data bits as ones or zeros, but analog chips can read and process waveforms such as speech, music and video. Hence analog chips create a bridge to the digital world of storage and manipulation. Digital cameras, cell phones, Internet telephony, and downloading or uploading Internet audio, video or image files all involve analog technology. The typed word hello is simple for a digital chip to understand, but only analog chips can understand the spoken word. By now most of us know that DVD and CD-ROM storage is digital. So how does this analog information get placed on digital media? Isn’t this a contradiction? The answer is that analog chips are used as translators to bridge the gaps into and out of the digital world. Analog chips convert waveforms into digital data, then reassemble the data back into wa
