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Think Analog
A 65-page slide presentation delivered by Bernd Ulmann at the Humboldt University Berlin Medientheorien colloquium on 27 May 2009. The talk introduces analog computation through direct and indirect analogies, walks through worked examples (bouncing ball, Joukowski wing simulation), contrasts the structural programming model of analog computers with stored-program digital machines, and concludes with a forward-looking discussion of digital-analog hybrid architectures using FPGAs and GPUs as high-speed analog processors.
analog computing theoryanalogies and modelinghybrid computersdifferential equations