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The authors study the convergence of the solutions and the existence of asymptotically stable periodic solutions for the delay difference equation \[ x_{n}=ax_{n-1}+\left( 1-a\right) f\left( x_{n-k}\right) ,\text{ }n=1,2,\dots \] Here \(a\in\left( 0,1\right) ,\) \(k\) is a positive integer and \(f:\mathbb R\rightarrow\mathbb R\) is a signal transmission function of the piecewise constant nonlinearity \[ f\left( \xi\right) =\begin{cases} 1, &\xi\in(0,b],\\ 0, &\xi\in(-\infty,0]\cup\left( b,\infty\right) , \end{cases} \] for some constant \(b>0.\) This equation can be regarded as the discrete analog of a delay differential equation with piecewise constant argument, which have wide application in biomedical models.