Digital circuits

combinational digital circuit that performs arithmetic and bitwise operations on binary-coded integer numbers

thumb|300px|Schematic of a 2-to-1 multiplexer. It can be equated to a controlled switch. thumb|270px|Schematic of a 1-to-2 demultiplexer. Like a multiplexer, it can be equated to a controlled switch.

A multivibrator is an electronic circuit used to implement a variety of simple two-state devices such as relaxation oscillators, timers, latches and flip-flops. The first multivibrator circuit, the astable multivibrator oscillator, was invented by Henri Abraham and Eugene Bloch during World War I. It consisted of two vacuum tube amplifiers cross-coupled by a resistor-capacitor network. They called their circuit a "multivibrator" because its output waveform was rich in harmonics. A variety of active devices can be used to implement multivibrators that produce similar harmonic-rich wave forms; t

device which stores the number of times a particular event or process has occurred

computer hardware unit having all memory references passed through itself, primarily performing the translation of virtual memory addresses to physical addresses

device which reverses the operation of an encoder

thumb|A typical kitchen timer

electrical interface in digital, pulse or power applications where the external load is connected directly to the collector of the switching transistor

the length of time taken for a signal to traverse a segment of an electronic or communication network

type of digital circuit

digital electronic component which compares two binary numbers

electronic circuit used to multiply binary numbers

digital circuit that implements a bit-shift operation

type of counter

model of computation

In electronics, a subtractor is a digital circuit that performs subtraction of numbers, and it can be designed using the same approach as that of an adder. The binary subtraction process is summarized below. As with an adder, in the general case of calculations on multi-bit numbers, three bits are involved in performing the subtraction for each bit of the difference: the minuend (X_{i}), subtrahend (Y_{i}), and a borrow in from the previous (less significant) bit order position (B_{i}). The outputs are the difference bit (D_{i}) and borrow bit B_{i+1}. The subtractor is best understood by cons

7400 Series TTL Arithmetic Logic Unit IC

thumb|Illustrates how a diagonal array enables nearly twice as many unique intersections as an x/y array.

diagram that shows events over time

when only a small amount of current is allowed through

type of binary decoder

device in signal processing

using software instead of dedicated hardware to process and make use of signals

logical unit in digital circuit design used to decrease calculation time in adder units

digital electronic circuit