Introduction to Logic Circuits

Abstract

The progress of modern industry depends to a large extent on our ability to introduce an increasing amount of automatic control into our industrial processes. Profitable fields for the introduction of automation techniques are the assembly of machine parts, the precision drilling and cutting of raw materials, the automatic sequencing of sorting, weighing, checking and storaging of raw materials and the automatic control of chemical and other processes. To an increasing extent the routine, and often mundane, work once performed by human beings is now being undertaken by machines. The digital computer is a good example of a sequencing machine that performs commercial and scientific calculations. We are already at the stage where machines are superior to man in many fields because of their ability to work to precision limits for long periods without fatigue. The speed of computer calculations is such that no human being could compete successfully with an electronic digital computer.