Nonlinear Devices
8.1 Introduction
By exploiting the basic physics of semiconductor devices it is possible to design circuits that perform a wide variety of mathematical operations, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division as well as trigonometric, logarithmic, and exponential functions. Such circuits perform in the analog domain and frequently offer real advantages over more conventional digital computation. Operations where analog computation is preferable to digital include those where both the input and output signals must be analog, limited amounts of processing are required and no digital circuitry is present, the signal is differentiated to produce a rate signal, fast signals must be processed in real time, ...
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