Digital Electronics

Digital Electronics
• is the sub-branch of electronics which deals
with digital signals for processing and
controlling various systems and sub-systems.
 Digital Signals
• A signal carries information. In digital signals
the values in a particular band is same i.e
constant. Digital signals form the basis of
digital circuit and digital electronics.
 Advantages of Digital Systems
• Easier Designing - The Digital systems can be
easily designed as they involve digital signals.
These signals do not require exact value at a
particular time but it consists of range of
particular values of voltage.
• Noise Immune - Digital systems are noise
immune because digital signal consists of
range of particular values.
• Information Storage is Simpler - The storage of
information in digital systems is easy. It can be
stored by latching thus, the it can be stored for a
long period of time.
• High Accuracy And Precision - The digital signal
offers high accuracy and precision.
• Programmable -The digital systems are easily
programmable but analog system becomes
complex when excessive programming of
components is done.
 Disadvantages of Digital Systems
• Expensive - Digital systems are expensive
because it involves switching elements
• Analog nature of Real World Entities: We need to
convert the digital output in analog form
because all the real world entities are analog.
 History of Digital Electronics
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – he created the
binary systems in 1705
• George Boole – he created the Boolean
Algebra
• Charles Sander Pierce - described how logical
operations could be carried out by electrical
switching circuits.
• In World War II, mechanical analog computers
were used for specialized military applications
such as calculating torpedo aiming. During this
time the first electronic digital computers
were developed. Originally they were the size
of a large room, consuming as much power as
several hundred modern personal
computers (PCs).
• John Ambrose Fleming – Invented the Vacuum
Tube.
• Tom Kilbum – his team at University of
Manchester in England created Transistors
instead Vacuum Tubes.
• Jack Kilby – recorded his initial ideas
concerning the integrated circuit then
successfully demonstrated the first working
integrated on 12 September 1958. This new
technique allowed for quick, low-cost
fabrication of complex circuits by having a set
of electronic circuits on one small plate
("chip") of semiconductor material,
normally silicon.
• In Texas Instruments on July 1958
 Latest in Digital Electronics
• Arduino - consists of both a physical
programmable circuit board (often referred to
as a microcontroller) and a piece of software,
or IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
that runs on your computer, used to write and
upload computer code to the physical board.