What is the difference between a discrete circuit and integrated circuit?

Answer 1

• Discrete components - each component: vacuum tube, transistor, resistor, capacitor, etc. is individually packaged, then connected together to make a circuit.
• Integrated circuit - multiple components are packaged together making a complete circuit as one integrated device. Modern ICs frequently contain hundreds of billions of components in one device.

Discrete component circuitry is bulkier than ICs because more packaging is involved.

Answer 2

A discrete circuit is one in which the individual components are discrete as in physically seperate.

Anything you usually build on a bradboard is discrete. Integrated circuits are the silicon chips you see around where many discrete elements are fabricated on a single silicon wafer.

Answer 3

differentiates between intrigrated circuits & discrete circuits