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If-else decision structure using op amps or any other non-programmable electronic device

The title is pretty clear, I would like to know if there is any circuit or an IC capable of dealing with signals to perform algorithmic sort of decisions, I mean, as you can solve differential ...
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How do you properly ground a digital pot and an op-amp?

I'm going to take a 5V 500mA power supply and pass it through a digital potentiometer AD5235 and then step it up through an op-amp with a gain 2 to get up to 10V output and put that into voltage based ...
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Is there an amplifier such that the gain is equal to the ratio of two potential differences?

I have been toying with some alternatives to transistors in building logic gates. I am particularly interested in the device I tried to summarize in the title of this post. The chip would have 8 pins: ...
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Why is the LM741 operational amplifier so prolific? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What's the uA741's appeal? The LM741 seems to be the "prototypical" OP-AMP used in teaching basic analog electronics. Why is this chosen when better designs are ...