Among other interface problems, contact bounce complicates the connection of mechanical contacts or any noisy digital input signal to a microcontroller. Although designers have proposed a variety of ...

When a mechanical contact, such as pushbutton, switch, user-interface button, limit switch, relay, or contactor contact, is opened or closed, the contact seldom demonstrates a clean transition from ...

If you’ve ever designed an embedded system with at least one button you’ve had to deal with button debouncing. This is also know as contact bounce, a phenomenon where a button press can be registered ...

In our minds and our computer screens, we live in an ideal world. Wires don’t have any resistance, capacitors don’t leak, and switches instantly make connections and break them. The truth is, though, ...