Digital Circuits and Logic Design
Digital Circuits and Logic Design
Digital Circuits and Logic Design
1930’s Relays
1940’s VacuumTube – No moving part ,
Faster than Relays
Size:
-80 feet long
-30 feet wide
-8.5 feet high
112341 Digital Circuits and Logic Design 2010 (KTS)
The First ‘BUG’
In 1947, Grace Murray Hopper was working on the Harvard
University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator (a primitive computer).
On the 9th of September, 1947, when the machine was
experiencing problems, an investigation showed that there
was a moth trapped between the points of Relay #70, in Panel F.
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Custom-designed chips
– Optimized for a specific task – better
performance
– Larger amount of logic circuitry
– Cost of production is high
– Large volume required to justify cost