The switch level modeling provides an abstraction between logic and transistor levels. It models transistors as either on or off, conducting or not conducting. Interconnect values are abstracted to a small number of discrete signal strengths. A binary decoder converts binary inputs to unique outputs, used for applications like data demultiplexing and memory address decoding. An example decoder is implemented using basic gates like NOT, NAND in a Verilog program and tested with a testbench that applies inputs over time.