\note<1>{\vspace{10em} The multi-resistor voltage divider generates equally spaced boundary points (the ``$i_k$'' in our previous discussion). Each op-amp is a comparator that goes to $+V_{cc}$ when the input is greater than the relative boundary point. So the output of the battery of comparators gives the interval number the input belongs to as a series of ``1'' (unary notation). The XOR and diodes form a simple logic network for binary encoding. work out an example with $x = 0.2V$, output is 10}