Most of us know, but just a bit of education for those not in our Analog world...what Analog chips do!
Analog chips are small electronic circuits. Unlike digital chips that
can differentiate only between "on" and "off" signals, analog chips can
process gradations. In practical terms, digital chips are the best at
manipulating or storing data bits as the numeral 1 or the numeral 0, and
analog chips can read and process waveforms such as speech, music and
video. Hence, analog chips create a bridge to the digital world full of
storage and manipulation capabilities.
Examples of Uses
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.
Storage on compact discs (CDs) and digital versatile discs (DVDs) is
digital. Analog chips are used as translators to bridge the gaps into
and out of the digital world, converting waveforms into digital data,
then reassembling the data back into waveforms for it to be seen or
heard. The digital format provides the storehouse.
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