In connection with physical experiments, the main topic "digital electronics" means mainly processing analogue signals from various types of sensors or analogue output of digital signals: the use of various analogue-to-digital or digital-to-analogue converters is the central topic. The applications range from "slow control" (a few Hz to several 10 kHz, "slow" acquisition/control/regulation of e.g. voltage sources) to "high-speed" data acquisition with high-resolution A/D conversion at clock rates of several 100 MHz. Within the digital domain, high transfer speeds with simultaneous high data integrity are of elementary importance.

Board layout of the microcontroller platform "GECCO": versatile board for "slow control" tasks.