However, they are still widely used in amplifiers and other electronic products that require large amounts of current. On a circuit board, discrete components are intermingled with the chips ...

and the next thing you know you’ve built a two-player color Pong game with audio completely from discrete components. If this one seems familiar, it’s because we were dazzled by its first ...

A circuit board packaging technique in which the leads (pins) on discrete components and chips are inserted through holes in the printed circuit board and soldered from beneath. Until the late ...