For the drum and bass musician, see Decoder DH163AT DCC decoder in an Athearn locomotive before the shell goes on.]] A decoder is a device which does the reverse of an encoder, undoing the encoding so that the original information can be retrieved. The same method used to encode is usually just reversed in order to decode. In digital electronics this would mean that a decoder is a multiple-input, multiple-output logic circuit that converts coded inputs into coded outputs, where the input and output codes are different. e.g. n-to-2^n, BCD decoders. Enable inputs must be on for the decoder to function, otherwise its outputs assume a single "disabled" output code word. Decoding is necessary in applications such as data multiplexing, 7 segment display and memory address decoding. The simplest decoder circuit would be an AND gate because the output of an AND gate is "High" (1)

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