In our minds and our computer screens, we live in an ideal world. Wires don’t have any resistance, capacitors don’t leak, and switches instantly make connections and break them. The truth is, though, ...

If you were given the task of designing a computer at a time when computers weren’t really even a thing, how would you start? How would you take a collection of vacuum tubes, passive components, and a ...

Among other interface problems, contact bounce complicates the connection of mechanical contacts or any noisy digital input signal to a microcontroller. Although designers have proposed a variety of ...

What causes a switch to bounce, and how many times will a switch bounce? Methods of debouncing a switch. What is NoBounce technology? Most people, especially non-engineers, tend not to think about ...

As opposed to conditional flag-centric code, a state machine diagram presents a very clear view of the design, and so provides a good example to students. As opposed to conditional flag-centric code, ...