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Conceptual Abstraction

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Conceptual Abstraction: The ability for people to create different points of view on a design, depending on the relevant degree of detail. Through stepwise refinement, one traverses multiple levels of abstraction. Similarly, in digital circuitry, the details of creating and, or and not gates with transistors is at one level of abstraction, and use of 1-add circuits to build a full adder is at a higher level of abstraction.

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