... discretevalues, which we call 0 and 1 (or LOW and HIGH, FALSE and TRUE, negated and asserted, Sam and Fred, or whatever). Digital computers have been around since the 1940s, and have been inwidespread ... temperature,power-supply voltage, component aging, and other factors.ãEase of design . Digital design, often called “logic design, ” is logical. Nospecial math skills are needed, and the behavior of small logic ... probably already quite familiar with digital com-puters and the ease with which you can design, write, and debug programsfor them. Well, guess what? Much of digital design is carried out today bywriting...