Now it takes design engineers from Cray (my mom will be so proud). 1. A 16-stage binary count versus a 16-stage Gray code count. The numbers shown in bold to the left of each count stage are the ...

Used in telegraphy in the late 1800s, and also known as "reflected binary code," Gray code was patented by Bell Labs researcher Frank Gray in 1947. In Gray code, there is only one bit location ...

2. Gray code used for shaft-angle encoding. The conducting (golden) areas are arranged in concentric circles, where each circle represents a binary digit (the inner circle represents bit 3 and the ...