comparator
Noun
Meaning
An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; -- applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.
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A dedicated voltage comparator chip such as LM339 is designed to interface with a digital logic interface (to a TTL or a CMOS ).
An example is the comparator which takes in a continuous range of voltage but only outputs one of two levels as in a digital circuit.
A dedicated voltage comparator may also contain additional features such as an accurate, internal voltage reference, an adjustable hysteresis and a clock gated input.
Consequently, an op-amp makes a sloppy comparator with propagation delays that can be as long as tens of microseconds.
Add an Is() comparator for checking identity, instead of equality.
A special advantage of the ramp-compare system is that comparing a second signal just requires another comparator, and another register to store the voltage value.