CE-CAE1-History and Overview
CS Core:
KA Core:
Non-core:
Core Learning Outcomes:
- Describe ways in which computer engineering uses or benefits from electronic devices and circuits.
- Identify some contributors to circuits and electronics and relate their achievements to this knowledge area.
- Explain the key differences between analog and digital systems, their implementations, and methods for approximating digital behavior
with analog systems. - Summarize basic electrical quantities and elements that show the relationship between current and voltage.
- Describe the use of the transistor as an amplifier and as a switch.
- Explain the historical progression from discrete devices to integrated circuits to current state-of-the-art electronics.
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