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- While transistors still have many useful purposes and are
- widely used, the electronics industry is continuing to
- develop around DIGITAL circuitry. No longer are TUBES (as
- we knew them) being used in modern devices.
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- DIGITAL LOGIC is a term that describes the overall design
- of a device in which "on" and "off" are the keywords -
- not... AMPLIFICATION.
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- It is DIGITAL because it deals with events that can be
- defined or characterized by DIGITS or INTEGERS, in contrast
- with LINEAR (analog) systems that have an infinite number
- of levels that may be encountered. It is LOGIC because it
- follows mathematical laws that PREDICTABLY follow a CAUSE.
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- If you remember in the HAM BONE chapter on AMPLIFICATION -
- There, we were talking about a LINEAR relationship between
- an INPUT and an OUTPUT. For example, a light dimmer and a
- microphone/amp only change AMPLITUDE - in a directly
- proportional relationship to the INPUT. It is constantly
- fluxuating to match the frequencies of your voice and
- therefore doesn't change it too much.
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- However, in DIGITAL circuitry, the only thing that matters
- is that we TURN ON and TURN OFF "gates" as we require. It
- isn't much more complicated than an ordinary light switch.
- It's either ON or OFF at any given time. That means, that
- the voltage at a particular point and time is either +VCC
- or -VCC.
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- "How in the world can you make a digital amplifier?", you
- ask. "If all DIGITAL circuits can do is either turn ON and
- turn OFF then how can it detect the FREQUENCIES in your
- voice?"
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- It's really pretty easy as you will discover in this HAM
- BONE chapter.
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