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In this chapter we show that it is possible and useful to connect the outputs of gates to their inputs. Such circuits are called sequential circuits. By connecting outputs to the inputs, gates can store data. This allows us to design circuits that ‘remember’ past inputs, such as registers and random access memory.
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Groote, J.F., Morel, R., Schmaltz, J., Watkins, A. (2021). Sequential circuits. In: Logic Gates, Circuits, Processors, Compilers and Computers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68553-9_3
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