Circuit Contest - Last Day

I will bet that it is a problem of patent issues and process issues, the that patent covered it is under processes that are no longer available, and the method currently used may not be covered under the patent.

Look up the patent number and the underlying patents, it shouldn't be long if it is still enforcable at all. The underlying physics is over 40 years old and most patents should be twenty or more. (expired)

They are are almost here, but they are vendor specific, proprietary and often have per unit license fees; nor are they often post production programmable (fpga like). There seems to be a speed dependant transfer point to very high density programmable logic that can implement DSP like functionality at speeds DSP's do not yet achieve.

Circuit 1 Explanation....

Both Robert Hickey and Bob Monsen submitted respectable (and reasonably accurate) explanations.

The rest (you know who you are) were laughable (some certainly that way on purpose ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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I thought you got enough across on the first pass to indicate you understood what was happening.

...Jim Thompson

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

I was sure I was part of the "laughable" group. You saw where I only submitted because of the poor response you mentioned. Did I need to send that second email mentioning "positive feedback" or did I get that across in the first {rambling} one.

Robert