6.01 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Digital Electronics, Stored-Program Computer, Compile Time
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3 Apr 2023
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12 of logic elements are necessary to construct an arbitrary digital circuit), and combinations are easy to think about (using boolean logic). These properties allow designers to build incredibly complex machines by designing small parts and putting them together into increasingly larger pieces. Digital watches, calculators, and computers are all built this way. Digital design is a very important part of eecs, and it is treated in a number of our courses at basic and advanced levels, but is not one of the topics we will go into in detail in 6. 01. Nevertheless, the same central points that we explore in this course apply to this domain as well. One of the most important developments in the design of digital circuits is that of the general- purpose stored program computer. Computers are a particular class of digital circuits that are general purpose: the same actual circuit can perform (almost) any transformation between its in- puts and its outputs.
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