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Analog and Digital CircuitsDate: 2015-10-07; view: 543. Text B Analog circuits Most analog electronic devices, such as radio receivers, have combinations of a few types of basic circuits. There are a great number of different analog circuits, because 'circuits' are very different - from a single component, to systems with thousands of components. Good examples of analog circuits are vacuum tube and transistor amplifiers, operational amplifiers and oscillators. Modern circuits are very seldom only analog. Electronic devices usually have analog and digital circuits. In this case they are ‘mixed' rather than analog or digital. Digital circuits Digital circuits are electric circuits with a number of discrete voltage levels. Digital circuits are the most common physical representation of Boolean algebra and are the basis of all digital computers. To most engineers, the terms "digital circuit", "digital system" and "logic" are identical in the context of digital circuits. Most digital circuits have two voltage levels: "Low"(0) and "High"(1). Often "Low" will be near zero volts and "High" will be at a higher level. Not only computers but electronic clocks, and programmable logic controllers have digital circuits in their design.
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