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Originally Posted by davidthefat
Is that a legit technical term used in industry? "Bang-bang" controller? It just sounds funny. I think I would have called it a boolean logic controller (Although that has its own implications)
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I think the name suites it quite well. Boolean logic makes more sense for the programmer. There are weirder names in engineering and programming. Have you heard of a "dirty-bit?" It's the bit inside of processors that notifies that data has changed. Yes, when we heard our professor say it, someone started singing the Black Eyed Peas song.
Zombie circuits are also fun. They represent circuits that are kind of powered up. In low power circuits, this can be due to power leakage through snubber diodes.
Another weird name... snubber diodes protect chips from over voltage, or under voltage conditions by placing a diode at the input/output of a chip, which has diodes going to Vdd and Vss.