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I. Fundamental Concepts
1. Vacuum Tubes: Used to construct the first generation of digital
computers.
2. Digital Waveform: Has two states (High/Low).
3. Digital Electronics: Electronics of counting.
4. Digital Threshold: Its purpose is to turn a gate ON or OFF.
5. Digital Circuits: Controlled by two conditions: existence of a signal or
the lack of a signal.
6. Abacus: First digital counting device.
7. Square Wave High: Signal is present.
8. Square Wave Low: Signal is low.
9. 0=low, 1=high, L=low, H=high, F=float, O=on, OFF=off,
ON=on, Active=on, Inactive=off, Green=low, Red=high,
Yellow=Pulse
o 0, L, F, OFF, Inactive: Green
o 1, H, O, ON, Active: Red
o Pulse: Yellow
II. Logic Gates
10. AND Gate: Produces a HIGH output if all inputs are HIGH.
11. OR Gate: Produces a HIGH output if any input is HIGH.
12. NOT Gate (Inverter): Inverts the input signal, producing the
opposite signal as the output.
13. NAND Gate: Logic circuit that operates like an AND gate
followed by an INVERTER. Output is LOW only if all inputs are HIGH.
14. NOR Gate: Logic circuit that operates like an OR gate followed
by an INVERTER. Output is LOW when any or all inputs are HIGH.