The incredible feature of the digital computer is its generality

A more approptiate name for a digital computer would be a continous information processing system

Discrete information elements are represented in a digital system by mental quantites called signals

The signals in all present-day electronic digital systems can have more than 2 discrete values

The digital system designer is restricted to the use of ........ signals beacuse of the lower reliability of ........ electronic circuits

A transistor circuit : The primary hardware component in a digital computer is either on or off

No state presents

can be classified into synchronous and asynchronous systems

Output = Function(Input) in

Output in state can be expressed by

State =

In ..... sequential systems state is updated at any time

...... computer performs a direct simulation of a physical system

you can simulate a physical process in a digital computer by quantizing the quantities

What type of conversion is quantizing?

A physical system whose behavior is described by mathematical equations is simulated in an analog computer utilizing numerical methods

The memory unit stores program in addition to input, output, intermediate data.