Electronic hardware consists of interconnectedelectronic components which performanalog orlogic operations on received and locally stored information to produce as output or store resulting new information or to provide control for output actuator mechanisms.
Electronic hardware can range from individualchips/circuits to distributedinformation processing systems. Well designed electronic hardware is composed of hierarchies of functional modules which inter-communicate via precisely defined interfaces.[1]
Hardware logic is primarily a differentiation of the data processing circuitry from other more generalized circuitry. For example nearly all computers include apower supply which consists of circuitry not involved in data processing but rather powering the data processing circuits. Similarly, a computer may output information to acomputer monitor oraudio amplifier which is also not involved in the computational processes.
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