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4 unusual facts about electronic circuit


Asteroids Deluxe

The hardware consists primarily of a standard MOS 6502 CPU, which executes the game program, and the Digital Vector Generator (DVG), vector processing circuitry developed by Atari themselves.

Design layout record

A design layout record (DLR) or circuit layout record (CLR) is used in the telecommunication industry to describe the detailed design path of a completed circuit, including all equipment and network components from one end of the circuit to the other.

Electrical penetration graph

It is a simple system consisting of a partial circuit which is only completed when a species such as aphids, which are the most abundantly studied, inserts its stylet into the plant in order to probe the plant as a suitable host for feeding.

John Cohn

Cohn has 60 patents issued or pending in the field of design automation, methodology, and circuits.


Direct-coupled amplifier

Direct-coupled amplifiers are used in TV receivers, computers, regulator circuits and other electronic instruments.

Linear circuit

A linear circuit is an electronic circuit in which, for a sinusoidal input voltage of frequency f, any steady-state output of the circuit (the current through any component, or the voltage between any two points) is also sinusoidal with frequency f.

Nonlinear element

In an electric circuit, a nonlinear element or nonlinear device is an electrical element which does not have a linear relationship between current and voltage.


see also

Hardware description language

A hardware description language enables a precise, formal description of an electronic circuit that allows for the automated analysis, simulation, and simulated testing of an electronic circuit.

Internal clock

Electronic oscillator, an electronic circuit that produces a periodic, oscillating signal, often a sine wave or a square wave

Printed circuit board

Predating the printed circuit invention, and similar in spirit, was John Sargrove's 1936–1947 Electronic Circuit Making Equipment (ECME) which sprayed metal onto a Bakelite plastic board.