All digital circuitry is very noisy. It generates harmonics and switching noise over a huge range of the radio spectrum, meaning it MUST have output filtering to work in the real (legal) world. Analog circuitry uses less power for the same RF output, making it a poor choice for mobile use. And if it's not mobile then you won't care about adding a few capacitors and resistors to filter the output.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday March 05, 2015 @10:34PM (#49193771)
Yes, but I'm sure they don't count all those pesky things like pcb materials and copper traces as "analog components" like the rest of us microwave engineers. To me, pcb substrate, capacitors, inductors, pcb substrate are all the same shit. Just different ratios of materials...
Why this will fail (Score:2)
Re:Why this will fail (Score:1)
Yes, but I'm sure they don't count all those pesky things like pcb materials and copper traces as "analog components" like the rest of us microwave engineers. To me, pcb substrate, capacitors, inductors, pcb substrate are all the same shit. Just different ratios of materials...