During one of [Michael]’s many forum lurking sessions, he came across a discussion about frequency counting on a CPLD. He wondered if he could do the same on an FPGA, and how hard it would be to count ...

Well, on the bright side it used to be that anyone (including little old ladies with no background in electronics) could spot fatal flaws in my arguments. Now it takes design engineers from Cray (my ...

Good grief. Ever since I published last week's “How To” on Gray Codes, emails have been flooding in containing all kinds of interesting tidbits of information. For example, one reader informed me that ...

A binary code used to represent digits generated from a mechanical sensor that may be prone to error. Used in telegraphy in the late 1800s, and also known as ...

PhD students spend their time pursuing whatever general paths their supervisor has given them, and if they are lucky, it yields enough solid data to finally write a thesis without tearing their hair ...