Chapter 2: Digital Circuits #

Overview #

Topics covered in “Schalten und Walten”: electric circuits can represent patterns - patterns encode information - number systems - a simple binary adder - microarrays - relays, tubes and transistors - coupling circuits - genetic regulatory networks - building blocks and logic gates - truth tables - digital circuit design - Boolean algebra - Synthetic Biology - an adder with memory - flipflop devices - lambda repressor - the neuron - neural circuits.

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The following illustrations from the book Inside the Computer’s Brain (Dem Computer ins Hirn geschaut) are available for download and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Using the figures

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