Consumer Electronics

Preface

Give us the tools and we will finish the job

 

Sir Winston Churchil

We have come a long way from the primitive vacuum tube to state-of-the-art Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) technology. The progress in the field of electronics has been fast, amazing, unparallel and unprecedented. We find ourselves being part and parcel of electronics environment surrounded by the so called user friendly gadgets and gizmos. That day is not far off when we will live in Electronic Homes—centrally and remotely controlled—and offices we work in and the equipment we deal with, become automated. The birth of electronic funds transfer, automated airline reservation systems and automatic teller machines (ATMs) has opened new vistas of life.

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