Yup! I just wonder how that would work. Since digital and analogue signals are completely different, signal conversion would be required. The overhead caused by conversion may result in delay between the next instruction, or even reduced performance depending on the other components in the machine. A lot of research would have to be done on getting an accurate, low overhead signal converter built into the device.
it would be the same way expansion cards work now; it would have digital control circuitry that can communicate with the analog circuitry.
We already have expansion cards that can do this. Audio cards are an example of an expansion card that convert between digital and analog signals.
Even things like graphics cards, ASICs, or FPGAs; it’s not a different type of signal, but it’s an architecture that isn’t compatible with the rest of the computer because it’s specialized for a certain purpose. So there’s control circuitry that allows it to do that and a driver on the computer that tells it how to.
If it turns out there’s something they do way better, they’d enter as an accelerator card like GPUs did.
Yup! I just wonder how that would work. Since digital and analogue signals are completely different, signal conversion would be required. The overhead caused by conversion may result in delay between the next instruction, or even reduced performance depending on the other components in the machine. A lot of research would have to be done on getting an accurate, low overhead signal converter built into the device.
it would be the same way expansion cards work now; it would have digital control circuitry that can communicate with the analog circuitry.
We already have expansion cards that can do this. Audio cards are an example of an expansion card that convert between digital and analog signals.
Even things like graphics cards, ASICs, or FPGAs; it’s not a different type of signal, but it’s an architecture that isn’t compatible with the rest of the computer because it’s specialized for a certain purpose. So there’s control circuitry that allows it to do that and a driver on the computer that tells it how to.