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Limitations
In general, analog computers are limited by real, non-ideal effects. An analog signal is
composed of four basic components: DC and AC magnitudes, frequency, and phase. The
real limits of range on these characteristics limit analog computers. Some of these limits
include the noise floor, non-linearities and parasitic effects within semiconductor devices,
and the finite charge of an electron. Incidentally, for commercially available electronic
components, ranges of these aspects of input and output signals are always figures of
merit.
Analog computers, however, have been replaced by digital computers for almost all uses.
It may be stretching a point to regard some physical simulations such as wind tunnels as
analog computers, because the data so obtained must then also be scaled, for example, for
Reynolds number and Mach number. There is a point of view in physics based on
information processing which attempts to map the physical processes to computations.
Thus, from these points of view, the wind tunnel data gathering is either an experiment or
a computation.